Livin’ On the Fault Line
Our mouths drop in disbelief, and once again we are stunned. We just don't get it yet, do we, why children are taking up arms and firing into crowds with no regard for the lives they are forever disrupting in an instant.
Tap Shoes
How much now I wish I would have offered him some small bit of encouragement that night, no matter how awkward I felt about it.
Childhood’s End*
Raising your children in a small town has many advantages. But when tragedies occur, it's almost always someone you know. Statistics and headlines are never just another story. It's a neighbor's daughter. A classmate's parents. A friend's son. Tragedies are magnified.