flawed but authentic

It is a truth easily identifiable that Education is a difficult place to be. Especially now with political correctness, impossible NCLB standards, and children who learn so differently that it’s easy to blame technology for all those ills. Let me be plain before I explain further in my story: they learn differently, but we are [...]

My old housemate Dana was a flight attendant on those little puddle-jumper airplanes. Her typical day would be something like: San Luis Obispo to Los Angeles International. Los Angeles International to Bakersfield. Bakersfield to San Diego. Little hops with cranky people who were anxious about making their connection in time.
We often talked about how people [...]

Have you heard of tiny Melinda Mae,
Who ate a monstrous whale?
She thought she could,
She said she would,
So she started in right at the tail.
And everyone said,”You’re much too small,”
But that didn’t bother Melinda at all,
She took little bites and she chewed very slow,
Just like a little girl should…
…and eighty-nine years later she ate [...]

Post pictures of a lake sunset.

Hope that you can be wrapped up in God’s arms as He paints a picture for you in the sky.

Be encouraged that such colors are even possible and found in nature.

And then? Well, just share them with a friend and have a nice day.

I think I have mentioned StoryCorps here before - a mobile recording studio that goes around the United States, collecting true stories for archival in the Library of Congress.
Every Friday on the way to work, I hear the StoryCorps music at the end of the local NPR station’s broadcast of “Morning Edition.” I pull into my [...]