It’s been a month. It has taken a month for me to compose my thoughts and write about my cousin Phyllis’s death - because it hurts. ...

It appears that Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, will soon be signing into law Senate Bill 8, which bans abortion after a fetal...

Nobody told me about being old.  Or maybe they did, and I wasn't listening. Why? Because being old was just not a part of my personal hopes and dreams.  I fantasized a lot about being a wife, about being a mom, about having a career, about owning my dream home, even about retiring.  But I didn't fantasize about being old...elderly...senior...over-the-hill...geriatric...long-in-the-tooth...etc. etc. etc. Being old, however, has completely changed my psyche, and I have daily th

With my grandson going to college this fall, we've been grappling with how to pay for it without his having to accrue heavy loan debt. As...

The last year I taught school was 1990, after which I served as a high school counselor until my retirement in 2012.  I taught high...

In 1974, I interviewed with a high school principal for a job opening for a school counselor. After a short Q & A, including the...

Bullying, defined by Oxford Languages as to "seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as vulnerable)" has been around as...

I try to keep up with our local school board meetings for a variety of reasons, foremost being that I truly believe education is the...

My father was abusive, mostly emotionally, but a couple of times, also physically. I have painful memories of the knife-sharp edges of...

Today's my cousin Karen's birthday. Of all my 42 first cousins, some of whom have now passed, Karen is the closest, though among the...