Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born in Christiana, Delaware in 1831. After living in Pennsylvania, Boston, and Richmond, Virginia and working as a nurse, she moved back to Massachusetts. There she attended the New England Female Medical College in Boston and, …

“Liar, liar, pants on fire,   Your nose is longer than a telephone wire” Written on a napkin and picked up by the garage band, the Castaways, in 1965, Liar Liar was their first and only hit single. As we have …

In 1943, Walt Disney created a short film called Chicken Little. Most people, we are sure, are familiar with the Chicken Little story. You may have read it as a child or read it to a young person. A peek …

Spoiler alert…this blog gets graphic. We are angry, feeling a bit defiant, and maybe going off the rails. Sometimes there are particularly difficult and appalling problems that we feel we must address. As we see it, the dark ages are …

When Maggie was a little girl, she recalls that her father had a certain morning routine. Since he was the first one in the household out the door in the morning, he would set up his cereal bowl and his …

Sometimes it is nice to seek quiet, stillness like fresh fallen snow, no distractions, no sound, only quiet. For a moment we are doing just that and taking a break from the chaos and the bedlam to reflect on you, …