“You’re really good at that.” “You’re so lucky.” “I bet that’s fun.” “I wish I had one of those.” If I was being politically correct, I would chalk it up …
I’m at a crossroads in my life. I love working with children, they are so full of possibility and wonder. So it makes sense that I would naturally want to …
Life goes on. Jobs are scattered across my desk, piled on top of the monitor, stuffed into bookcases. Someday, like the cliché, I’ve got to get organized. One task I …
In continuing my previous column, I will wrap up the account of that fateful classroom discussion. Once the labeling issue was laid to rest, I decided that perhaps I should …
This is a damned hard column to write. My son, Jasper, was struck and killed by a Portland, Oregon bus, on March First. He was thirty. He had brittle bones–a …
By now everyone has seen the film, “The Passion of the Christ”. The movie had me bawling for at least 30 minutes. I felt Christ’s pain. I felt terrible for …
Something occurred in one of my classes during my senior year that I just cannot seem to get out of my head. It plagues me for the lack of sensitivity …
The assurance of a more youthful appearance is very tempting to most people who feel the need to better themselves by undergoing cosmetic procedures. Doctors now offer many options for …
I have a friend, a woman in her late 40s, who is going to a university and working on her master’s degree. She began college at forty, after years of …