Real Life and Other Randomness

Sometimes, there just aren't enough reasons to love others. Sometimes, there isn't enough space, or enough words, to tell all the...

Three is a magic number. It always has been. It always will be. Our Brooklyn Claire turns 3 today. And she's pretty magic. In t...

When I was 5 or 6, I went with my mother for a portrait sitting. A local artist at the rundown Pampa mall created a beautiful portrait in ch...

Today is graduation day for a wonderful friend of mine. When I first met him, he was just a skinny little kid in a Superman t-shirt. He was ...

At work, there is always someone who everyone loves to pick on, mess with, tease. Not in a mean-spirited way, of course, but more in the old...

One of the hardest lessons I've ever had to learn is this: You cannot want more for somebody than he wants for himself. It's sim...

One of my students asked me last week what I wanted for my birthday this Thursday. I told him that I honestly didn't know. He sugges...