As a public school teacher for twelve years, I began to notice differences in my classroom dynamics when I had more boys than girls. As a mother of a six-year-old son, I am noticing certain behaviors and attributes distinct from what I remember of my childhood growing up with a younger sister. After spending four years working in a public library and five years teaching kindergarten, I tend to want […]
Mary Marie Dixon | A Mother’s Lament
A tidal stem on a threadbare rug, his ship a mounting, come roaring, come free. In a continent sofa and beaches of brown, wood writhing a sheen. A timed stem of yearning responds to the tug of my moon, a graven image on a tattered sea. A roaring, an ocean, a shoring, a continent shoves and swirls a torquing stem on the great green rug, a land of […]
Impossible is nothing | MOON Shine
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” — Charles R. Swindoll “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is […]
Sabriye Tenberken | Blindness is no barrier
Sabriye Tenberken embodies the notion that “impossible is nothing.” Born in Germany with a degenerative eye disease, she became totally blind at the age of twelve. Shunned by her friends and patronized by her teachers, Tenberken compensated by doing everything she could to show the world she was “just as good” as a sighted person; but she was miserable. It wasn’t until she enrolled in a boarding school for the […]
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