Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~Jean Paul Friedrich Richter This past Thursday, mom received a text message from Kyle saying he…
Story of one boy changing my life
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~Jean Paul Friedrich Richter This past Thursday, mom received a text message from Kyle saying he…
To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day…. I think it must be how it ought…
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love. ~Henry Miller This…
There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk. ~Guy Gavriel Kay After Kyle’s birthday celebration I found…
Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes,’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life. ~Ian Fleming On Wednesday, I surprised Kyle with an adventure…
Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything’s possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take…
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. ~J.D. Salinger I can’t believe how long it’s been since I released a…
It’s true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person’s blood even if he doesn’t…
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton I’ve talked about Chaperoning the Kiski Area Marching Band…
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. ~Anne Brontë Life contains those subtle special moments that…
Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what…
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. ~Edward Abbey Last night, Kiski presented the showcase of bands, whereas the seventh through twelfth grade…
Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ~Ursula K. Le Guin…
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world. ~Marianne Williamson Happy 39th Birthday Ryan! Today, Ryan would have…
To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality. ~John Bradshaw Kyle is…
My life is like tofu—it’s what gets added that makes it interesting. ~Angela Johnson Last Wednesday, I took Kyle and his friend on A Visit…
I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that…
Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I…
What we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. ~Cynthia Ozick Honestly, I’ve been toying around with this…