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Dignity: What is Success?

The thing that was so amazing about my mother is that she always taught us to believe that we could be successful if we truly wanted to be. She didn’t measure success by how much money we would have but success in the kind of men we could be. I didn’t really understand that as a young child. We didn’t have much and I sawContinue reading “Dignity: What is Success?”

Dignity: My Self-Worth 

I remember in high school we would be asked to write a paragraph introducing ourselves to the rest of the class then the teacher would read them and the class would try and guess who it was that wrote it. This was the type of assignment I did not care about. My handwriting was terrible and myContinue reading “Dignity: My Self-Worth “

Dignity: Happy Father’s Day: Open Letter to my Children

The running joke in my house is that the unofficial name for Father’s Day is National Socks, Ties, and Underwear Day, because that is what we get for fathers. You know it is true. Go into any Walmart or Target on the Saturday before Father’s Day and the long line of mothers and children with their carts fullContinue reading “Dignity: Happy Father’s Day: Open Letter to my Children”

Dignity: My Journal of My Journey 

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  “Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.” Nelson Mandela  IContinue reading “Dignity: My Journal of My Journey “

Dignity: Through Words and Actions

Things have changed so much from when I was a child growing up in the late sixties into the seventies. Bullying meant something different back then. The bigger kids would take the smaller kids for lunch money or make fun of someone in class because they were short, tall, or overweight. I remember when IContinue reading “Dignity: Through Words and Actions”

Dignity: Unified Sports, Where Dignity Lives

I have been writing this dignity blog since July 2020. I started posting my thoughts online in June of 2021. I never knew I would have so much to write about. The stories I share and the thoughts I type on this blog are the stories of a man who spent much of his life living in silence. I cannot believe how manyContinue reading “Dignity: Unified Sports, Where Dignity Lives”

Dignity: Happy Birthday to Me  

Tomorrow (May 2) I will celebrate sixty-two years on this earth. When my birthday falls on a Saturday it has special meaning because I was born on a Saturday back in 1964. When I tell people how old I am, I usually get two responses. The first is “Really, I thought you were in your forties.” or “You’reContinue reading “Dignity: Happy Birthday to Me  “

Dignity: Growing Older and Wiser with Dignity

I was reading a letter this morning that my son wrote to me last year on Senior Day. Each student writes a letter to their parents and shares it with them on the week before graduation. As I read his letter again, the sentence that stood out the most to me was the fact that he thanked meContinue reading “Dignity: Growing Older and Wiser with Dignity”

Dignity: I found My voice Through Music: Scituate Part 6 

I struggled most of my time in school. Read and writing were a challenge for me. Even more challenging for me was public speaking. Getting in front of my classmates and reading a Shakespeare poem or reading an essay I wrote brought out this fear in me that is hard to discribe. As I stood in front of the class andContinue reading “Dignity: I found My voice Through Music: Scituate Part 6 “