This week, I’ve been busy working on my forthcoming book, Your Turn: Ways to Celebrate Life through Storytelling, and the topic of the chapter is spirituality. Contemplating this subject can feel uncomfortable, given that each of us comes to understand and define spirituality in our own way. So, I’ll share my own perspective based on a lifetime trying to understand the “still, small voice” that helps guide my behavior. For me, spirituality manifests when I become aware of that inner voice, … [Read more...]
Stigma Impacts Mental Health Treatment for Children
A stigma often surrounds those children who suffer silently from depression and mental illness. Having been prescribed medication to treat the symptoms, children are sometimes signaled out, particularly at school, as school staff have one additional need to contend with. As a former administrator, I understand the time and effort it takes to make sure these children are properly attended to. And, having suffered from depression and mental illness myself, I know what it feels like to be on the … [Read more...]
Kick the Can
The arrival of the Dog Days of summer have gotten me thinking about my childhood – in particular, playing Kick the Can, a popular after-dinner pastime in my old neighborhood. Each night, kids who lived within a two-block radius of our house would slowly gather, like itinerant moths drawn by the first flickering flame of a Lone Star lightning bug display. I grew up during the 1950s in far West Texas, about 30 miles from the New Mexico border, where it was crucial to wait until nightfall to … [Read more...]
A Collective Sigh of Relief from Around the World for 12 Rescued Thai Boys and Their Coach
Euphoria, appreciation and gratitude filled the airwaves this week at the good news of a successful and high-stakes rescue of a dozen young Thai boys and their soccer coach from an 18-day ordeal trapped miles into a flooded cave complex deep in the mountains of Thailand. A visceral sigh of relief could almost be heard, as mothers and fathers around the world, who’d been transfixed by the extended drama, collectively watched and prayed for a successful outcome, wondering at how the helpless … [Read more...]
A Refreshing Perspective
They say that all politics is local, but I’ve been thinking lately that perhaps it’s more than that. Maybe the true beating heart of America can only be truly discerned through the lens of small towns; those off-the-beaten path places where our great experiment of a country plays out day after day, and where communities are continuously tinkering with their reality in response to a world transforming around them. I say this after learning about a new book written by Atlantic writer James … [Read more...]
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