As a middle school teacher, the hardest thing I have to do is teach students to be nice to one another. For me, being nice to others is in my DNA. It is all because of my upbringing. I grew up in a very small town in South Dakota with my parents and three younger… Read More Is It So Hard To Be Nice??
Day 25 of Lent 2020 Growing up I never heard my parents use bad language. If we did let a swear word “slip out” they would talk to us that it was inappropriate and our family doesn’t use words like that. Luckily, our family wasn’t like some of my friend’s families where they had to… Read More Giving Up Destructive Speech
In these days of uncertainty and chaos, it can be hard to stay positive when so many things and people around us are so negative. Case and point. Micky, Chris and I headed to Walmart and Sam’s Club on a Friday night because there was a winter storm coming and everyone was panicking about the… Read More Sowing the Seeds of Kindness