[vimeo 92773428 w=500 h=281] <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/92773428">To my everyday mother</a> from <a...
Kristi Kane A year ago last April, our community was left struggling after a teenage boy in my daughter's school (one who she knew personally and was friends with) took his life. A dark shadow cast itself on all who knew him. I found myself thinking,...
Maryn Holladay My husband subscribes to Bloomberg Businessweek. This magazine and I have a good thing going on. Like weekly clockwork: the magazine arrives, I thumb through, I focus on a fascinating article or two (or six), and a few minutes (or… longer) later, I feel...
Rebecca Mallory No doubt you've heard the recent debates over capitalism. It is the American way and has been since its inception. Recently, however, many speak of capitalism in disparaging terms; that it is somehow unfair, that it promotes greed and robs the very worker that...
Diane Robertson Many parents across the nation are wary, worried, and bemused by the new Common Core standards. An important part of Common Core is the standardized testing. To prepare students for the tests, school administrators are enforcing strict instruction for much of the school day....
Liz Mackay It was a typical Monday morning with children to awaken and help prepare for the day, lunches to pack, laundry to oversee, vacuuming to start. As I moved forward to accomplish these needed tasks, my two youngest children kept coming up and petitioning me to...
Maddi Gillel There is consistency and warning of great men throughout history - from Cicero to leaders in the 20th century – of what it takes to preserve freedom and what it takes to destroy it.. I believe we must head their warning for I cannot...
Kristi Kane Recently I was reviewing my year's posts on Facebook. One of the things I'd written was during Christmastime, and it said, “I never want to ask my children to do another chore again. I can't handle the whining and complaining, so I think I'll...
Rebecca Mallory What if you could be a hero and save an innocent child from the jaws of evil right now? I'm going to tell you how. Early this morning I was driving home and was listening to the Glenn Beck program. My ears perked up...
Elise Ellsworth Next week my husband and I will celebrate fifteen years of marriage together. Our marriage has weathered the births of seven children, four college degrees, eleven moves (four of them cross-country), job losses, being hit by a tornado, too many emergency room trips to...
