I always really liked the quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” I elaborated on this a little once I felt I had found l...

[This post was originally delivered as a speech by Martina Penalosa at the 2019 Good Shepherd Volunteers Spring Benefit] A year, depending on how you think a...

As a Good Shepherd Volunteer at Collier High School, my days are filled with cold mornings, substitute teaching, quiet lunch duties, and any other helpful wo...

Throughout the school day, I often struggle to find the right words to say to our students. Sometimes they approach me or I just happen to be there when they...

I would like to introduce you to someone. She can barely read and cannot write in full sentences. Her arms are covered in old, (and not-so-old), scars from n...

Autumn is a fire I never want to burn out. Autumn is a fire, calmly and quietly searing; starting from the tips of the tree branches, and ending upon the gra...