Yesterday, I walked into a local grocery store to buy some corn chips. This store has homemade chips and I AM ADDICTED! After picking my bag (which are usually right inside the door) I walked to the deli. The woman behind the deli counter asked how she could help me. I told her she already […]
Inevitably, the day came when my daughter, now 14, asked if she could have a WhatsApp account. Then an Instagram account, then others. It was about three years ago. I felt kind of overwhelmed with the requests and how to answer, but, like in so many other areas, I knew saying a simple “no” or […]
October is also Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence Awareness month. According to the CDC, from 2010 to 2012, “nationally, 7.1% of women (an estimated 8,627,000) were victims of rape, physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime and first experienced these or other forms of violence by that partner before the age of 18. […]
In the 2019/2020 school year I was horrified to walk into a local office supply store for a binder for my new job at a local school district. What horrified me? “Bullet Resistant Backpacks! I asked myself, are we sending our students to WAR or to SCHOOL??? I was INFURIATED! Never mind the capitalization and/or […]