Not the ones who look the picture of spring, but the ones freezing their asses off on metal bleachers in negative 20 wind chill. Not the ones who arrive with…
My name is Amos. I am to be in the Christmas Pageant tomorrow. I am a sheep. At least, that’s what they tell me. I am not a big fan…
He’s changing, not quite every day I notice something different. He’s changing, today he showered and dressed nicely and I found him splayed on his bed doing his homework for…
Mama It’s his best word. He has been saying it since he was ten months old, back when he was just a baby. My baby always but a baby baby…
I was a student at Meredith College, perhaps a sophomore, and my sociology professor introduced us to a fellow student, a girl that spoke the whole of a class about…
Elephant in the Room: December, 2015 A year ago I took a leap and began sharing my heart. This was my first story. ….Satire meets truth, faith meets irony, despair…
I think he knows something we don’t. Ahhh, how I love a statement like this. My oldest reflecting on my youngest, biggest brother to smallest brother, typically developing boy to…
Eleven years ago, two long days of labor just one day shy of five weeks early, produced a 5 pound one ounce son named Thomas. Eleven years ago, I became…
I think what is hardest about true exclusion is that there is nothing or no one to blame but yourself. To be excluded in a non-objective way by a group…
My favorite part of today? It wasn’t the awards. It wasn’t the end of school excitement. It wasn’t even the knowing that no more lunches would have to be packed…