Cult – a small group of people having practices defined by others as strange.  It has taken me many months of observation and investigation. Last Spring, I stumbled upon what I believed to be an unnatural phenomena and began documenting and investigating this strange occurrence.  After endless study, I have finally come to the only logical explanation I could find…my children’s teachers… Read More

It’s the 80s and I imagine standing waiting for the bus, clutching a metal lunchbox with matching Thermos filled with red Kool-Aid. We lived down an old dirt road and we rode a bus that would not pass emission standards today. School was simpler back then and so was parenting. As a child I don’t remember the stress of homework or… Read More

This is written in response to a Facebook post about all the teachers in my area being the perfect example of “ignorant in a tiny town”.   Ignorant– lacking knowledge or awareness in general: uneducated or unsophisticated. Synonyms-uneducated, unknowledgeable, untaught, unschooled, untutored, untrained, illiterate, unlettered, unlearned, unread, uninformed, unenlightened. At first I was so incredibly angry that you would call… Read More

Children will expose every single crack and crevice in your parenting and marriage… I am rather adept at finding humor in my parenting skills.  I have to be, because I trip, stumble and fall a whole heck of a lot when it comes to my kids.  In my world, motherhood is gritty, dirty and downright hilarious, if I didn’t laugh… Read More

I guess I should have seen the warning signs. Looking back they were whispered truths I chose to ignore. He was a college, All-American basketball player and I thought he was wildly handsome. When we first started dating I ignored the signals. Little things, like when we took a walk and he pointed out trees and plants and called them… Read More

I’m about to post something very offensive and I might actually lose some friends.  CATS kind of creep me out…. When I met my husband, I realized that we were on opposite ends of this CAT issue.  I really thought this was no big deal.  I mean really we agreed on so many important things, like child-raising, and church, and… Read More