My mother dedicated her life to teaching.   Not just teaching,  but reaching out to those left behind in America’s broad educational system.   She taught junior high!   Wait,  it gets better:  she taught juvenile delinquents of junior high age! However,  even she reached her limit,  and when they started posting armed guards in the hallways of her Chicagoland school, she quit.   Unfortunately,  this born teacher discovered too late that no other school system was willing to t

Heroes come in all kinds of packages.   In fact,  many heroes are not even recognized  –  least of all during their own lifetimes.   But with the recently observed Native American Day,  I thought I would share a few of mine  –  some that you may have heard of,  and other lesser-known aborigines of North America.   This is not by any stretch of the imagination,  a comprehensive list. It would be like trying to list all your favorite white people. The great Olympian Jim Thorpe