“You cannot open a book without learning something.” — Confucius Is there anything more powerful than a book? What else has the power to educate, spread the imagination, foster fantasies, and inspire change? What else can detach your feet from this earthly world and transport you to another alternate universe? …
I am standing against the gym wall, one of only two girls who have not yet been chosen by a team. Pick me. Please pick me. Don’t let me be the last person picked. Please God. I push my glasses up my nose, cross my arms in front of my…
It was hot that Tuesday morning. Oppressively hot. The sun was just rising and already the day was blanketed in stifling heat. Cruel and unrelenting heat. Teams of migrant workers – many from Mexico and in Illinois for just a matter of weeks – headed out into the dense cornfields…
“People who need people are the luckiest people in the world,” according to Barbara Streisand. Well, I’m not sure if all that is true, but as a new blogger, with aspirations of becoming a published writer, I can tell you that I definitely need people. I am late to the…
please… please.. please… I whispered the words softly, quietly. Please. Please. Please. I chanted the words silently, but strongly. As I stood in the bridal waiting room at the back of the church, ready to step out to a church filled with family and friends where my soon-to-be-husband was standing…
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank We are a celebrity-obsessed culture. We devour the contents of People, US Weekly and Life & Style (I, personally, experience heart palpitations if my US Weekly arrives a day or…