By the Letter E

Well as I sit here listening to all of the illegal fireworks going off in my neighborhood and then the rain that has begun to fall...I can't help but think about all of the things that have come out of the crap that was 2012. On a personal level...This past year has been such a struggle for my family that I could not wait for the new year to arrive. The past it just that, the past. So in 2013, I look forward to promising events to take place that will propel my personal enrichment forward as well as uplift those around me to a new level of energy, love and prosperity. Being so close to the ground, one can only go up. Positive vibes, promising career options, and always love for my fellow man shall bring fantastic things in the coming year. I wish you all the best...and then some in 2013, I mean we've already all defied the predicted death of our planet right? That's one hurdle crossed...the rest should be cake. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Something as trivial as a day at school should be just that, trivial. Things should be normal.  People should wave at friends in the halls, pass notes in class, learn, and look forward to recess and lunch.  As we have seen in the tragedies in the US and across the ocean in China, sometimes days aren't so trivial.  This was truly a slaughter of the innocents. Shortly after parents dropped off their children at Sandyhook Elementary in Connecticut, an emergency page/txt went out to parents with a generic message that there had been a shooting at a school.  Parents were advised not to pick up their children, which as any good parent can attest was largely ignored.     Within hours word had spread through the US that something horrible had occurred within a small close knit town called Newtown Connecticut.  First, word that there had been a shooting arrived in fuzzy preliminary news reports.  Then as the day progressed twitter feeds and facebook posts presented information in gr