>>It happens every few months: A deranged person enters a school and starts shooting people. For a few days, maybe weeks, the old gun debate...[Read More]
All posts by LeAnn Simon
>>The other day, my eight-year-old asked if we could walk through the Christmas section at the store. He wanted to look at the lights, sniff...[Read More]
>>A few months ago, a >>Syrian toddler washed up on a frigid beach in Turkey and — for a minute — the entire world experienced...[Read More]
>>When I was a child, my mother asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up. Without hesitation, I answered that I wanted...[Read More]
>>It used to be a gig for high schoolers. Like the ubiquitous summer job, picking up a few hours at a retail shop before the...[Read More]
>>My son ’ s stepmother showed up on my doorstep one blustery January afternoon. She looked at me with bruised and swollen eyelids, and spoke...[Read More]
>>It happens every few months. A deranged person enters a school and starts shooting people. For a few days, maybe weeks, the old gun debate...[Read More]
>> My ex-husband found out where I was living in hiding with our six-month-old son. He kicked in the door and beat me to unconsciousness....[Read More]
>>After a grueling debate season full of rallies, marches and public actions, it seems as though public education in North Carolina finally had a little...[Read More]
>>My grandmother’s “Peanut Parties” were the best. She would set us kids on the porch with a huge tub of locally-grown peanuts to shell. When...[Read More]