[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] A long while ago, Matt Walsh published a piece titled “You’re a stay-at-home mom? What do you DO all day?”. I saw it pop up at least a dozen times in my Facebook newsfeed back when it was first published, and that’s only the ones that were there when I was actually […]
Politics/Community
9/11: To Our Children, It’s a Day Like Any Other, But to Us? It’s Monumental.
I remember while I was growing up, my parents and other adults would tirelessly recount where they were and what they were doing the day John F. Kennedy was shot. My mom was just a kid when it happened, but that didn’t lessen the impact of that day on her soul. She recalled how people […]
Teachers: You Are Worth Far More Than They Say
A friend of mine recently tweeted me the link to a blog post titled Why Teaching Is So Doggone Hard. I loved it. I loved it so much, I reread it — TWICE. Teaching is so doggone hard, after all, and no one knows that like a fellow teacher. What I didn’t love were some […]
What The Defense of Marriage Act Strike Down Means for Heterosexual Me
It means nothing. And everything. It means nothing because by striking down the Act, the Supreme Court has changed exactly nothing about my life. My marriage is not impacted. Federally recognizing gay marriage and the benefits that accompany it does not make my marriage any better or any worse. Our bond is no less sacred […]