It starts with something minor, a sewing needle or a pin.  Just something to take your mind off whatever pain, anger or hurt you are feeling, but can’t control.  It’s all about control, [...]

I heard a sad story the other day. More like a mad story… And I don’t want it to ever happen again so I’m looking for some changemaker teens to take this and run with it. I have a friend who [...]

Have you heard about the movie “13 reasons why”?  Boy, what an uproar it has caused.  Schools are banning it, parents are forbidding their children to watch it…. but it sure is getting [...]

  My dad is lonely.  He’s off the charts lonely.  Over the top lonely.   My mother passed away over a year ago and he has not recovered.   I’m not sure that he [...]

What’s the worst thing that happened to you today? Did you overdraw your checking account? Miss out on a primo parking space? Did your football team lose today? I was scrolling through Facebook [...]

I can’t believe I did this. Really, I don’t know what I was thinking…. I was at my son’s varsity baseball game. Bottom of the ninth. We were winning by one run, but the other team had loaded the [...]

I just saw a video of a young mother who had survived the most unbearable tragedy.  Her husband and newborn son were involved in a horrific accident – her husband was killed instantly and [...]

I bet a lot of you are excited about heading off to college… finally you’re on your own.  You can stay up late, eat junk food, live in a messy room…. It’s awesome, right?  But you know [...]