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Where I've Been

There are a few times in one's life when everything changes in an instant and one realizes that the instant will impact generations. Such was the month of July. Literally within weeks I was in Columbia for intensive training for my new position at the St. Louis Program Coordinator of the Missouri College Advising Corp. Little did I realize during that first telephone call with our executive director, that I would be embarking upon something that all of time and elements has been waiting to happen. Everyone has a purpose in life and that purpose is larger than dollar bills, cars, or clothes.  Sometimes it propels you and energizes you through twelve hour days.  The impact is just that great. My month of living in a hotel room (sans Saturdays when I had that one full day at home with my family) came to an end yesterday when I packed up my car and headed back home. I learned a lot about what we will be doing, bonded with my St. Louis Cluster, and received confirmation...

Numb, Sad, Angry, Disappointed, Scared, Mad

A torrent of emotions raced through my heart and knitted knots in my stomach and formed lumps in my throat Saturday night. I was home for the weekend from my month-long residential training in Columbia.  My husband and I were taking in a poetic, lyrical, smokey, and beautiful Jazz at the Bistro concert featuring Miss Anita Jackson.  Being away all week, I had spent Saturday morning and afternoon tending to the children and trying to find some pants that would fit the pounds I gained from this carb-heavy diet they are giving us.  I wasn't watching the news. Saturday evening, before he left, I told my 19 year old son to be on the lookout for anything while he was out, that I hadn't heard the verdict yet.  My husband and I had just returned home and he was anxious to be with his friends from high school. When I got home after the concert, showered and was finally able to sit down and watch the news, scrolling at the bottom of MSNBC was the news that Zimmerman got ...