When I started this Martini Friday blog back in June of 2013, I did so to help one of my literacy students. I was working with a group called Literacy Volunteers and my student was a woman about my age who had a very different life experience from my own. She was born and raised […]
Monthly Archives: May 2016
I was never one of those girls who grew up dreaming about her wedding and having a houseful of kids. It’s not because I didn’t like kids, I did, but I was always focused on getting through college and getting established in a career. My own mother had 4 kids in just over 5 years […]
“Nixon’s in the White House ready to be elected, Kennedy’s in the trash can ready to be collected”. These words, a common jumprope rhyme I learned as a kindergartner, were probably my first introduction to the world of politics. Of course the two names’ position in the rhyme could be reversed depending on your political […]
