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I have a lovely home office space that very rarely, if ever, gets used. Why? Because I have two wild and fun elementary school-aged boys, a newish puppy (a gorgeous lab!), a slightly more grown-up lab, and a partner...

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."--John Dewey As you prepare yourself and your family for the coming school year, we encourage confidence in your choices, patience with the process, and reassurance that resiliency will see us...

  The Beginning Eleven years ago, I was a senior in high school. Brimming with promise, potential, and dreams, I had been accepted to what seemed like a billion colleges, having the opportunity to pursue academic achievement beyond what I imagined....

I was born during prime planting season for watermelons in East Texas. One of my favorite things about my birthday was hearing the affectionately called "Watermelon Story." It goes that in the middle of planting seeds, a call was...

Can you feel it yet? There’s been a chill in the air.  A new storm started with this latest health scare.  The clouds became dark and it started to rain. There’s so much confusion inside of my brain. I’m trying my best to make sense of it all. With...

Lubbock Moms Open Call for Writers Applications open July 19 and close at 10:00 pm on July 31. Interested in being a part of our Events Team? Keep your eye out for that application to launch soon!   Are you the in-the-know...

This is the general 2020 Candidate Ballot that you will see this November (based on your address, it will be more specific). The local Lubbock elections that were postponed from May 2020 to November 2020 are also included at...

Moms, we need to talk about our world right now. It is broken. It is hurting. And some of us are doing the hurting. Most of us aren’t actively harming anyone, but we are too often not actively helping either....