From the first moment that I read the words from Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” as a twenty something, I was entranced. The poem spoke to my soul – my very woman’s soul at that – about the power of the individual to rise up against oppression: You may shoot me with your words, You [...]

There is never a better time to set a goal, than September and the beginning of a new school year. There’s that back-to-school excitement that ripples across the atmosphere, and those brand new pencils for sale in Target and of course the new fall calendar for the community classes that comes sailing through the letter [...]

Talking about suicide is still so taboo, although many families have suffered the tragedy. It’s crazy really, to think that it’s so hard for all of us to talk about it, when at the end of the day, talking helps and helping, is healing. I wonder whether we don’t talk about suicide, because we fear [...]