“Where were they? They can’t have just disappeared.” Escaping with the giddy feeling of power in outsmarting their “jailers,” three students snuck off campus and headed for 7-Eleven three blocks [Read more...]
What is happening to us? Land of the free, home of the brave. A country of great pride and privilege. Yet a land fraught with violence. The shocking statistic, we average a mass shooting (four or [Read more...]
She the oldest rises early, Sometimes 4:30am. No surviving mother, so the oldest girl becomes that figure to her siblings. She must make sure there is water, light the oven in the yard, gather [Read more...]
What is wrong with us? Where is the goodness And the patient grace And the love of our fellowman? Bullies degrade Racists divide Murderers in the name of vengeance, Slaughterers for a God I [Read more...]
Tiny And needy And vulnerable, And you are swollen with love and awe at the precious creature you were entrusted with. Fearful that they might break, you read and research every decision [Read more...]
So many abandoned. So many orphaned. Tiny lost faces A promising future in an emerging country—Interrupted. She found her first one when she was just a young unmarried woman. In a [Read more...]
When I saw the barrel, I had to look closer to make sure I read it right. At first I thought it was a joke. Then I noticed an area where the words were worn away, as if the chains had actually [Read more...]
When the world as I know it is falling apart around me, fear tries to take residence in my heart. It’s wizened fingers begin a slow steady squeeze around my otherwise healthy core. Fear of the [Read more...]