Today, I leave for the community where our son is in a residential facility. It is 500 miles each way. 10 hours by bus. When you have an auto-immune illness the trip takes twice as long. Frequent breaks are needed. Lots of rest periods. If I drive, I take it in two days with a…
Tag: reality
I am going to use the R word.
[kc_background_pac_3_underline_3 size=”35″ color=”#000000″ ]Reprehensible[/kc_background_pac_3_underline_3]. I can define reprehensible, or you can look it up over at Dictionary.com. Talk of gun control legislation without talk of Mental Health service expenditures is reprehensible. We can not have one conversation without the other. It would be irresponsible of our society to assume that guns are solely to blame,…
Reblog: What the Hell? Witholding a High-School Diploma for “Cursing”?
Maybe my stint in the Marine Corps has warped my perspective on what constitutes bad language. But I found the story of an Oklahoma high-school valedictorian whose diploma was withheld by the school principal because the girl “cursed” absolutely outrageous. Kaitlin Nootbaar, 18, was giving a speech to the Prague, OK, high school class of…