flawed but authentic

This morning I took my sons out to breakfast at Crackle Barrel. No, really. That’s how it’s pronounced in my house. Morgan has never been able to say it correctly, it’s been “crackle” for a long time. Only this morning, as we were goofing around we called it “Crack-a-lackin’ Barrel” and I thought I’d bust [...]

I rearrange my bookshelf two or three times each year. The books were originally alphabetized by author name. Then I switched to a genre type of classification. Then I got all fruity and took half of the books off of the shelf and replaced them with baskets of decorative crap and framed pictures. Regardless of [...]

These past few weeks I’ve found a renewed commitment to defining my dreams. There was a point in my life when I knew, I KNEW, exactly what I wanted out of life and had a plan to get there. But the last two years have found me slowly sliding backwards and down into a dark [...]

Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

But it’s still something that brings tears to my eyes and inspires me when I’m feeling low.
The public schools I attended from 6th grade to 12th grade had amazing special education programs for children with various handicaps. Children with Cerebral Palsy, Down syndrome, Autism, and more participated in “mainstream” programs that placed [...]

Not long ago on my own writing space, I made mention of a parent whom I felt was slighted because of her race. It wasn’t lost on me that, in education, we sometimes treat parents differently based on their race. The look on that mother’s face and the realization that she was a mother and [...]

I love forgiveness stories. I collect them.
A Course in Miracles says “The holiest spot on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love.”
I like The Forgiveness Project website, because it has great stories and because it doesn’t bother to clean them up and make them all right. Sometimes people screw up again. [...]