Education does not exist in a vacuum. Hillary was right. “It takes a village.” In my case, it took family, friends, teachers, classmates, co-workers, my dog Toby, and me.
Wow. When the Saints come rolling in, they can be like monster trucks barreling over everything in their path, recklessly crushing our emotions and burying them under their gigantic, mud-splattered tires – right along with the cremated remains of the people and animals we have loved.
My sister Stacie sold her home on March 4th. Located in Hamburg, a quaint bedroom community just outside the city limits of Buffalo, New York, the feat of selling her home in this dreadful economy, and despite its location in the snowy, tundra region surrounding Lake Erie, classifies as a minor miracle. It was on the market for close to two years.