We need action
When will enough be enough? There have been 212 mass shootings in 2022, with 27 of them being school shootings. Thoughts and prayer statements are no longer enough to solve this epidemic.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
To the Editor: As the school year comes to a close, I’m writing today to celebrate someone who has dedicated the last four years to supporting our students. As an AmeriCorps member with Reading Corps, Kolette Duscher has focused on providing our students with extra practice and support to improve their reading skills.
Older American Month
Through no fault of my own, it has come to my attention that May is Older American Month. This gave me pause. Let me see if I have this straight. May is a month. I get that. For Older Americans. Um, what the what?!
Spring Cleaning
In the Hundred Acre Wood, during the season of spring, you will find Piglet spring cleaning, beating his rugs outside his tree house. Some say spring cleaning comes from Persian New Year (first day of Spring) or the Jewish anticipation of Passover. Others say it’s just the first time you can leave the windows open. Either way, it’s the time to streamline. But how?
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
To the Editor: Many people think that there is a set outcome for them in their life that cannot be changed, they believe certain things will happen in their life and they have no control over them. They may even take it as far as they will go to heaven or hell without a choice.
Caterpillars to butterflies . . .
2022 Seniors . . . Well, here you are about to graduate. I’m sure you’re pinching yourself at the prospect of reaching your goal of the last 12 years. I think of you all as caterpillars. You’re about to leave your cocoons; your high school and homes, to emerge as butterflies and fly away to your futures.
Tulip Talk
Rob Perez sits across from a vibrant, solid blue potted perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophyte, more commonly known as a tulip. ROB: Well, this is very unusual.
Celebrate National Skilled Nursing Care Week
Skilled nursing care centers and their staff provide a steadfast commitment to providing a high-level of care for their residents. This has never been more evident than the last two years during the pandemic. In addition to protecting and caring for their residents around the clock, during a time of limited visitation and social distancing, staff stepped in and served as family members and friends to ensure that residents had the essential social connections they needed.
A Day for Mother
Mother's Day is the one day a year when Mother gets to put her feet up and is waited on hand and foot by her minion. Father brings her an iced coffee, just the way she likes it. The children deliver the remote control, blankets, and a snack. Uninterrupted, Mother watches an entire episode of BBC-produced British period piece on PBS. It is pure bliss.
To my Easter people
This Sunday as we were sharing are prayer concerns, we prepared as we have for the past several weeks to pray for the people of Ukraine and Russia. I said, “we should take note that these nations are primarily made up of Orthodox Christians and that while we celebrated Easter last Sunday this is Easter Sunday for them and thus, we should pray for our brothers and sisters as they celebrated the resurrection this morning.” I quickly corrected myself and said, “not that we aren’t celebrating the resurrections ourselves this morning.” I had fallen into the trap that is far to easy to stubble into treating Easter as something we celebrate one day a year and not a day that should change every day of our lives. We celebrate every day because of the resurrection.