WE are Responsible!
I voted this week. I also started my first REAL social work position in a school. One of these was disheartening. One of these was the exact opposite of disheartening.…
The Proud Boys are NOT going away, nor should they.
I don’t want to write these words. There is fear, admittedly. I feel some who read these words will feel hurt, anger, disappointment, confusion, perhaps a loss of faith or…
Ignorance is NOT acceptable!
"I don't know who the Proud Boys are. I mean, you'll have to give me a definition, because I really don't know who they are." This is a direct quote…
Love? (America, why NOT change?)
“If you don’t love this country, get the hell out!” I have heard and read these words more in the last four years and counting than I wish. I don’t…
Perception
There once was a boy, who happened to be blind, swinging on the playground at his school. As this boy sat swinging, a few yards away another boy was making…
Goals and Dreams
I have been thinking of goals recently A LOT! Goals are important in this life, without a doubt. Goals are what keep us moving forward and often provide motivation and…
I am NOT helpless…
These days, I gotta admit, I kinda feel helpless. I am just along for the ride. The wide-open surrounded by crazy-beautiful scenery with bald eagles soaring gracefully through an azure…
Prejudice and Forgiveness
It was my very first day working as a lift operator at Winter Park Ski Resort in Colorado. I had made it through the morning and was actually making my…
And Three Weeks Later…
The first surgery on my abdominal area happened on the first day of graduate school at Colorado State University. After missing two weeks of graduate level classes, I spent one…
Stomach Surgery # 1
The surgeon, an Army doctor with short gray hair and a rather brusque, “just the facts” manner of speaking, which (originally) did not exactly create an aura of lovability about…