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When a 6-year-old Woodlands, Texas boy with cerebral palsy told his mother he wanted to try running, she did her best to get him into the sport. Apparently, the decision has paid off. Runner’s World reports that Reed Kotalik understands that his leg don’t work properly, but that didn’t stop him from getting into a sport that would […]

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ― Anaïs Nin Late Fall – 1979 When I was 16-years-old and a ninth-grader at Riviera Junior High, John Perry, a friend from Ms. Allen’s English class, sidled up to me one December day as we lined up to go to the cafeteria […]

“Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.”― Alice Miller, “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self.” My three-year stay at Riviera Junior […]