The day I accomplished nothing and everything
Today I feel like doing absolutely nothing. My mind is blank, and that's not good when I need to be typing up this blog. So, in honor of this blank feeling, I will elaborate on what I do on days like this, and how I get done what needs to get done. Bear with me!I got up this morning with all sorts of intentions, some of which will come to fruition. I have many projects I need to get started...
Children Services places protection of children first
Q: I am a single mother of two children, a 5-year-old son and a one-month-old daughter. Their father lives in another state and does not visit or provide support. I do not have a job, health insurance, or a home, so I live at a shelter. Children Services came out and took both my children, saying that I was not caring for them properly. Can they do this? A: Yes. Children Services (the...
Words still carry weight in our society
Language is in the news again – which either is an indicator it is a slow news week or that words actually still carry weight in our LOL, tx, btw society. The word of the day is one I am sure the publishers of this newspaper would rather I not use, so well refer to it euphemistically as the N word. It was a word that once was pretty widely used, like it or not, to describe blacks in...
So how's your New Year going so far?
Its getting to the point where Im no fun any more. I am sorry. -- From Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, Stephen Stills (1968) Its a broken-down world, isnt it? Do you know a single, solitary person whos even close to being happy? I certainly dont. No one knows how bad things are going to get, but whats the point? Just when you think its all bottomed out and life cannot possibly...
Teaching professions students get a taste of college life
Current teaching professions students learned first-hand accounts of college life on Monday as 15 alumni of the program spent some of their college holiday break at the farmhouse where the program meets at The University of Akron Wayne College. The alumni, from all over Wayne County, had been students in the Wayne County Schools Career Center satellite program, some from the very first class in...