Whom do you think of when someone says, “Name a rock star?” Most likely our generation would think of Elvis, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, etc. For me, though, my mom was a rock star! She’d be the first to poo-poo that idea! There was […]
Role Models
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By Shoshana Harris I invite you to picture this: you lived through the great depression. You were an excellent student, graduating as salutatorian from high school. But hopes of going on to medical school were not to be realized, so instead you settled on becoming a secretary. You married at […]
Learning to Learn “Learn something today.” This is the first thing I think of when I think about my dad. Every day, as my siblings and I would leave for school, he would say these words. And the thing is, he meant it. Each night as we sat around the […]
By Ken Creeger My father was a tool man. He loved his tools and used them every day in his work and when needed at home. They fit perfectly in his hands and were extensions of his fingers. A talented self-taught mechanic, he could fix nearly anything mechanical, including diagnosing […]
The slap heard ’round the worldcontinues to unfurlendless times on TV.How many times must we seethe downfall of “Richard the King?”Will we ever learn this simple thingthat from violence comes only sad,that a good life’s reduced to bad? This incident though rather smallmirrors what we all recall.We see it in everyday […]
You tugged on my heartstringsyou walking your daughter down the aisle with pride and joy And again, your speech, delivered with poise and grace tugged on my heartstrings. It was more than a speech it was a song of your dedication and love as a father A love song, funny and smart,that filled me with love for you and all that you […]
How I wish I could be hypnotized and sent back in time to revisit the first two years of my life. How I wish I could tear out of the deep recesses of my brain images, pictures of my grandparents who, I have been told, adored me. How I wish […]
Golda Meir. Susan B. Anthony. Clara Barton. Margaret Thatcher. Florence Nightingale. Hillary Clinton. Mom was none of these women. She was a quiet, reserved woman who felt deeply but kept those feelings to herself. She would never have wanted to be in the spotlight. Mom grew up in Sioux Falls, […]
What is a role model? Seriously I’m not really sure what it in entails. I know there have been women that have influenced me in many ways. Am I supposed to be like them, or like myself? Or is it that what’s so special about them is this, I appreciate […]