A couple of years ago on a laid-back Saturday morning, our girls stumbled upon a movie called Dolphin Tale. The movie dramatizes the true story of a dolphin, named Winter, who is rescued and rehabilitated after getting caught in a fishing net off the coast of Florida and subsequently losing her tail. A team of…
My right hand has a slight deformity to it. When I was in the 4th grade I was on a softball team practicing for an upcoming tournament. I was a pitcher, but one warm summer evening we were using a pitching machine for batting practice and I stood in at shortstop. One of our best…
Bad service is exhausting. I’m in the middle of an email exchange with a company that has yet to send me a gift I ordered for someone more than six weeks ago. The item is in some sort of retail purgatory; it’s marked PAID but has yet to be marked SHIPPED. This business has cute,…
For my first two years of college, I was an art major. I had always enjoyed drawing and doodling, so I thought it would be fun to pursue a career in the art sector. This plan was going well until I realized I needed to take a photography course that required me to use the…