Four reasons why I never want to drive a school bus again. — I heard a scream from the back of the bus! Little Eddy comes running up the aisle screaming, “Junior did it! Junior did it! Junior did it!” It was my first day driving a school bus for the county where I lived. …

Alex Haley introduced me to racism. — There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it. — Albert Einstein Albert shared these words during his commencement speech at…

The view from the other side can help you too. — The idea of the midlife crisis did not begin until 1957 when Canadian, Elliott Jaques, read one of his papers to the British Psycho-Analytical Society. It declared that the catalyst for this event was when people came to grips with their mortality and that their lives were half over. This…

Knowledge is good, but wisdom is better — A long time ago, in a not-too-distant decade… James Earl Jones opted to take $7,000.00 instead of royalties from ticket sales to voice Darth Vader in the original Star Wars movie. Now we know he would have earned much more if he’d taken the royalties. He later admitted that his decision cost him tens of millions of dollars. …

a poem and writing challenge accepted! — Writing bad sentences for me is easy, I can throw them out there, and Who, whom, whoever, whomever can read them, I can use a lot of punctuation!?!, and I’m a big fan of parenthesis (being able to further Break down my thoughts into smaller segments) (Instead of using commas, or semicolons; or colons:) And…

Take a brain dump to de-clutter your mind — The build-up begins When the alarm goes off in the morning, a flurry of thoughts rushes through my mind. What is on my calendar for the day? I need to get one of our vehicles to the mechanic since the heater is not working in the middle of winter. My son was not…

Boredom creates five qualities that improve only children’s lives. — “I would never have guessed that you are an only child!” I hear this from time to time and usually take it as a compliment. Some only children grow up thinking the world revolves around them. I’m sure I went through these stages in my life, but for the most…

A five-stanza haiku — the struggle is real —

Three takeaways from a game-changing simulation. — I’ve made many mistakes and have many parental regrets. With 27 years of parenting under my belt, I wasn’t sure I was ready to take on the challenge the instructor gave us that afternoon in the small Arkansas town. Fifteen young men stood on one side of the spacious recreational…