By Liz Prescott | Feb 18, 2015
One definition of happiness is to narrow the gap between doing what you want and doing what is right. The first half of my life was spent doing what I wanted to do – playing sports when young, working in different jobs after completing school. Then in 1987...
By Karen M. Sughrue | Feb 18, 2015
I have dedicated my life to my family. Amidst carpools, ballet lessons and football games, my four children grew to become men and women. One day, one of them, Paolo, said “Mama, I am gay.” That was a devastating day. I asked myself, “Why was this...
By Karen M. Sughrue | Feb 18, 2015
I am a 79-year old former biology professor and I now operate the first no-kill cat shelter in Jackson County, North Carolina. When I retired to Jackson County, I found the only animal shelters were “we kill” shelters that killed most of the cats in their...
By Karen M. Sughrue | Feb 18, 2015
I taught math at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, New York for 34 years. The school kept a huge blue dumpster behind the school. There were countless times when I looked into this dumpster and found hundreds of discarded math books, science books and library...
