Have you seen this CNN report? http://www.cnn.com/…/pkg-girl-fighting-cancer-kicked-out-of… I am outraged after seeing this CNN report about a little girl who has just completed treatment for leukemia who was kicked out of Catholic middle school because of her attendance and academic standing. We are talking middle school. She had attended this school her whole school life and was understandably upset when they as she described, "got rid of me." As the parent of a child wh

I saw a post on Facebook the other day. It asked, 'If you could have five minutes more with someone who had crossed Over the Rainbow Bridge who would you choose?' Which then leads to thoughts such as what would you want to say and why...etc. For people who have experienced the loss of multiple loved ones it would be hard to choose wouldn't it? This post gave me pause. My brain is usually going ninety miles a minute so it was good for me to push my chair back and go park myse

On page 219 with a page title of "The Storm" in a book my dear friend Ann Wilson read (I have to ask her the title again), was a passage that she felt so strongly about...enough so that she carries it in her wallet. We had breakfast together last week and she shared it with me and now I am sharing it with you. "GRIEF IS A POWERFUL RIVER in flood. It cannot be argued or reasoned or wrestled down to an insignificant trickle. You must let it take you where it is going. When it