What have we learned from Susan Boyle?

One of my co-workers pulled up a video on YouTube last week, of a woman named Susan Boyle, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY. She wins over her audience singing “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables.

UUCLC Lending Library

I am getting involved with the local Unitarian Universalist congregation's lending library. I hope to have it up and running soon.

Temple Grandin on Lake County radio KPFZ 88.1 FM

will be on a radio show with Dr. Temple Grandin and host Chloe Karl, talking about ASDs, 5 p.m. Friday, May 1, on KPFZ 88.1 FM

— Cynthia Parkhill (@CynthiaParkhill) April 22, 2009

School play promotes discussion of uncomfortable reality

A dramatic performance of “Bang, Bang, You’re Dead” by the Calistoga Junior/Senior High School drama department offers much-needed encouragement to talk about violence and bullying in our schools.

Calistoga schools finally discuss bullying

I would like to thank the Calistoga Junior/Senior High School drama class for being willing to address the controversial issue of school bullying. I am a 1986 graduate who was subjected to bullying and ostracism throughout nearly all of my K-12 career in the Calistoga schools.