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Susan July 12, 2018

Is Life Supposed to be Fair?

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. – Oscar Wilde             As a middle school English teacher, I try to make my writing assignments interesting for my students. My thought is, if they are interested in what we’re writing, they’ll learn better. With
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Susan July 5, 2018

How You Can Benefit From Endurance

Endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up – Rick Warren            He set sail for Antarctica in 1914 with 27 men. One hundred miles from land his ship became trapped in ice and then he watched helplessly as it was crushed and sank. He and his men traveled five months, barely
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Susan June 28, 2018

I Doubt It – Doubt and the Soul

Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash “Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night When I was a young girl, my siblings and I spent most summer days outside. We never needed our arms twisted to force
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Susan June 20, 2018

Courage and the Soul

The word courage comes from the Latin words, cor; meaning heart and aev, meaning lifetime. It means to continually put one’s heart or soul on the line. Courage requires that you put your soul, including your vulnerabilities, on display. My confession I have a confession to make; I abhor the movie, The Wizard of Oz.
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Susan June 14, 2018

Beloved and the Soul

As an adult, I understand that just as our eyes can distort an image, so can our souls. The vision of our souls is flawed.             Growing up, I always wanted to wear glasses. Having to wear them now, many years later, makes me wonder why I wanted them. I guess I saw classmates with
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Susan June 6, 2018

Abandonment and the Soul

(Abandonment) is a difficult force to reckon with because the wounds abandonment makes are deep  and prone to infection.               In the poem, The House with Nobody in It (see poem below), Joyce Kilmer beautifully personifies the feelings of an old house that is no longer lived in and every time I read it, something within
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