This post was originally written in August 2012 and a year later, it is still relevant. Once again this summer I saw kids with no shoes, or shoes in such bad shape they were barely shoes. No child in a country as “prosperous” as America, should be forced to duct taped Dollar Store flip-flops. But …
I have been a coffee and newspaper kind of gal since I was 11 and nope, I am not kidding. I grew up in a family where the first stop in the morning was a quick jaunt to grab the newspaper and to actually read it. I grew up in a newspaper kind of town, …
Once upon a time there was a young girl, who wanted to chart her own course in life. All her life she had been a good girl, always one to follow the rules, did what was expected of her, she was what some would call an easy child. Somewhere around her fifteenth year of life, …