Dealing with overwhelm

I’m proud that my daughters are learning better language, better tools, and better coping mechanisms than I ever had at their age. I pray that it works.

Our first college tour

This weekend we took my oldest daughter on her first college tour to Fort Valley State University.

A dream (not) deferred…

One of my favorite poems from my youth is the Langston Hughes classic that reads: What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry upLike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore–And then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over–like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sagslike a heavy load.Or does it…