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Susan August 2, 2018

Integrity, An Endangered Species

One of my favorite episodes of The Andy Griffith Show is Man in a Hurry. It is an episode that features a traveling businessman from the big city whose car breaks down in Mayberry. He spends most of the episode trying to get out of this small town and back to the “important life” in
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Susan July 31, 2018

What is Joy and Why You Need It

When I was six years old, I received a Christmas gift that I’ve never had before nor since. That was the year mom had my little sister, Joy. This little being fascinated me but as we grew, I wondered why my parents named her Joy. On my way outside to play I heard, “You need to
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Susan July 26, 2018

You Can Learn to Ask for Help!

“Sometimes it takes more courage to ask for help than to act alone.” Ken Petti “Help!” I have grown up hearing this word in multiple places. The Beatles sang about it, Gilligan yelled it while sinking in quicksand, and Clint Eastwood mumbled it in one of my favorite westerns. It may be easy enough for
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Susan July 19, 2018

Five Reasons People Gossip

Warning! Warning! Warning! We live in a litigious society and many have made it their mission to sue anyone that may have infringed on their person, property or rights. Because of this, it is logical that companies have gone overboard to protect themselves from lawsuits by giving detailed warnings for their products. I’ve looked at
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Susan July 12, 2018

Is Life Supposed to be Fair?

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. – Oscar Wilde             As a middle school English teacher, I try to make my writing assignments interesting for my students. My thought is, if they are interested in what we’re writing, they’ll learn better. With
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Susan July 5, 2018

How You Can Benefit From Endurance

Endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up – Rick Warren            He set sail for Antarctica in 1914 with 27 men. One hundred miles from land his ship became trapped in ice and then he watched helplessly as it was crushed and sank. He and his men traveled five months, barely
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Susan June 28, 2018

I Doubt It – Doubt and the Soul

Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash “Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night When I was a young girl, my siblings and I spent most summer days outside. We never needed our arms twisted to force
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Susan June 20, 2018

Courage and the Soul

The word courage comes from the Latin words, cor; meaning heart and aev, meaning lifetime. It means to continually put one’s heart or soul on the line. Courage requires that you put your soul, including your vulnerabilities, on display. My confession I have a confession to make; I abhor the movie, The Wizard of Oz.
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Susan June 14, 2018

Beloved and the Soul

As an adult, I understand that just as our eyes can distort an image, so can our souls. The vision of our souls is flawed.             Growing up, I always wanted to wear glasses. Having to wear them now, many years later, makes me wonder why I wanted them. I guess I saw classmates with
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Susan June 6, 2018

Abandonment and the Soul

(Abandonment) is a difficult force to reckon with because the wounds abandonment makes are deep  and prone to infection.               In the poem, The House with Nobody in It (see poem below), Joyce Kilmer beautifully personifies the feelings of an old house that is no longer lived in and every time I read it, something within
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