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South senior Scottie Alora knows what direction he’s headed and I don’t doubt he’ll get there.
It’s always neat to talk to kids like Alora and to get beyond their athletic exploits. A simple post-meet interview suddenly turns into a five-minute ‘interogation’ as one question after another falls out of my [...]
Written especially for all of us whose mothers were truly mothers (as in that compound word that begins with “mother” and is followed by a second word that begins with “f.”)
Well, it’s May 11, 2008, Mother’s Day. A day to get sentimental about Mother, celebrate fulsomely how our mother contributed [...]
~Mother’s Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe, 1870
Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts,
Whether our baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
“We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with [...]