Blurry Vision by Sharon O’Donnell
July 27th, 2019
Is it really the end of July? Six weeks ago when my youngest son, Jason, graduated from high school, the summer seemed to stretch out lazily ahead of us. His freshman year of college was over two months away, and there seemed to be plenty of time to do and say ...
One More Game by Sharon O’Donnell
April 16th, 2016
My middle son played high school basketball and baseball throughout his entire four years. He could have played college baseball, but the anxiety that he struggled with in high school made him lose his drive and passion for baseball -- not his skill --- he still made all-tourney teams and ...
New website about promoting uplifting high school literature by Sharon O’Donnell
August 16th, 2015
For the past three weeks, my project has been developing a website called Uplit.org, a site dedicated to promoting more uplifting literature in high school English classes. The bleak, depressing literature reading assignments - that have traditionally been accepted as the norm -- have bothered me ever since my middle ...
Third Time Around by Sharon O’Donnell
April 25th, 2015
Having three sons with a ten school years between the oldest and youngest certainly has kept me busy. We've had at least one son in public school since 1996. Whew! That's a lot of school projects, vocabulary tests, and Algebra and Calculus tutors. My youngest son will ...
