The STAR Center is happy to announce the addition of Donald Young (Don) as our Manager of Home Care Services. Don has over twenty-five years of experience in serving those with disabilities and seniors across much of West Tennessee. “I’m excited about being a part of The STAR Center, and the legacy they have in […]
Have you ever been told your dreams are too big? You’re going to need to change your dreams? Last week I had a chance to listen to Richard Pimental speak. If you don’t know Richard, there is a movie that his story was featured in called, Music Within. I would highly encouraged to go find […]
Well, this is Halloween week can you believe it? It’s finally here it feels like that between Halloween and the first year must have been at least 10 years. This Halloween is going to be different but many Halloweens have been different for many children across our community every year. And so, what we have […]
Happy Monday! You know, just this past week I saw a video from Kara Lawson. And for those of you that don’t know, she was a UT Vol great, played under Pat Summit, but she is now the head (women’s) basketball coach at Duke University. This is her first year. She was talking to the […]
Well, happy Monday! I don’t know how many of you have heard of Sir Ken Robinson, but he was a great author and thinker and he passed away last week. And somebody in a memorial post on social media referenced his book, “The Element,” and it reminded me that I had that book on my […]
Am I smiling or not? You didn’t know. Although, mom trained me well… When a camera points at me, I’m supposed to smile even when nobody can see it. So much of our expression is told from the bottom two-thirds of our face. You know those with disabilities often are relying on seeing facial expressions […]
Full transcript available at https://youtu.be/Jx9lCZecwfM. Happy Monday! I don’t know how many of you knew this, but there was a special day last week. Wednesday was National Mail Order Catalog Day. Good night! Everybody has a day, don’t they? I, it’s just exhausting but when I thought about the National Mail Order Catalog Day, I […]
Well, happy Monday! I had something happen last week that I just wanted to share with you. As my daughter opened up her folder, there was a sticker and on the front, it had her name, and right underneath her name it had “class of 2026.” And so, she happened to just read it out […]
Well, I don’t know about you but making decisions in this COVID era can be exhausting because you don’t know what is going to happen next. One of the things I just wanted to share that I’ve done, whether it’s helped or not, it feels like it’s helped so maybe it has…I try to identify […]
Well, I don’t know if you’ve heard but school is about to be back in and many of you are trying to figure out what to do. Do you send your kids back to school? Do you do it virtually? Do you sign up for some hybrid program? You know, we always want to do […]