“The journey of a lifetime starts with the turning of a page.” –Rachel Anders Christmas is a time of anxiety for the students in my behavior disorder/emotionally disturbed classroom. Living in poverty, the expectations of the rest of America accentuated their lack of “stuff”. Depression, despair and desperation etch…
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” -St. Francis of Assisi As a child living in a struggling household, I attended a one-room school house in rural Wisconsin. The snow fell thick on the corn stubbed fields surrounding our school as the wind…
The music filled the Dorothy Meneker Theatre with 110 voices singing in four part harmony backed by live musicians playing violins, flutes, cellos and muted drums. The words formed inspiring images of reaching for dreams and finding them attainable by one thing: believe. The message from the song “Believe” from…
“One yard of fabric, like one cookie, is never enough.” -Quilter chalkboard sign PDF My love of cookies is unabashed and a cause of concern every Saturday when stepping on the scales at Weight Watchers. There isn’t a cookie that has failed to incite salivation. The aroma of these…
