As I was walking out of the office at work today, I saw not one, but two copies of this image posted on peoples’ cubicles. I’d seen this drawing before. My dad had brought it home from work when I was much younger. He and my mother always taught me never to give up. [...]

Of all her children, my mother says I am most like her. I’d have to say that’s one of the greatest compliments she could give me because she has been the greatest teacher I’ve ever had and was instrumental in making me who I am.
My mother grew up poor in rural Arkansas at the tail [...]