Creating Superheroes and Butterflies

Superman, Wakanda Forever, Batman. Kids love superheroes. Have you looked and searched for the superhero in your child? What are his strengths? What are his superpowers? Focusing on another’s strengths helps them to amplify it and sometimes even places it on their own...
Creative Children

Creative Children

“Creativity takes courage.”- Henri Matisse “Dance is for everybody. It’s a way to express yourself, to tell a story.”- Alvin Ailey “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”- Maya Angelou 5-year-old Sage  participating in an American...
Choose Courage

Choose Courage

If I had to live my life over again, I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would take more trips. I would...

SAY HER NAME

I remember watching the movie Australia. One thing that stood out was that when someone died you were forbidden to say their name. Two months ago, my sister died, and I’ve had to consider that life isn’t permanent. I’ve learned the ways in which people grieve. I am a...

MISSING YOU

By Lucille U. Freeman When I heard Anthony Brown and Group Therapy’s song Worth, I was sitting at my 57 year-old sister’s funeral, who had lost her battle to breast cancer. The grief inside me turned into muffled sobs, as I listened to the music and the...