A little bit of everything
Earl Yarington (LMSW) is a social worker and school bus driver. He taught literature and writing for nearly 20 years and spent 3 years working in forensic social work internships with offending populations, including work at Delaware Correctional facilities and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He has a PhD in literature and criticism (feminism/women writers) from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Master of Social Work from Louisiana State University, and an interdisciplinary Master of Liberal Arts from Arizona State University, where he studied the impact of visual image and girlhood in media/social media. He also has an MA and BS in English from SUNY College at Brockport. The opinions and analyses that Earl writes are his own and are not necessarily the positions or views of his employers, the agencies he supports, or that of his colleagues. Reach out with comments or questions.
As a contracted school bus driver for Anne Arundel County, I am hopeful that our school bus transportation seems in pretty good shape for the start of school on August 28. The County and our contractors and bus drivers deserve some credit, given the mess we are seeing elsewhere. I am reminded though that it is still early.
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For starters, this is an article about male and female, more traditional relationships. I don’t have the education, experience, or training to discuss non-binary and/or other LGBTQ++ relationships.
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In November of last year, I sat in a tattoo studio. I was a bit anxious and excited. I was getting my first tattoo. After nearly ten hours of enduring needles and a band called Fit for an Autopsy, I had Anne Frank’s face etched on my left arm.
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If you are like me, you grew up practically living on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The sad truth is that almost all major peanut butter brands are not really peanut butter.
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Even if it is only once a week, please do a kind thing for someone, just a random person. It does not matter how small you may think it is. No act of kindness is too small.
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I was taken aback when a former FBI investigator said that one reason why the holocaust happened was because of money. There is always money somewhere as a motive. The more I thought about it, the more sense it made. If we stigmatize a group of people, we can eventually take all their property and belongings and sell them.
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For a few short weeks, it appeared that Anne Arundel County had mostly fixed its severe school bus driver shortage. Don’t get too comfortable yet.
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Back in 1942, Annelies Marie Frank was busy journaling. Her dream was to become a journalist, and at 13, she
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The real culprit here is ageism. The older we get in the United States, the more invisible we are. Do people not react with disgust because they just don’t like older people and want them to remain invisible? I think so.
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I am a doctor but not a medical one, nor am I a dietician or medical professional. Like many people, I struggled with weight. Once I had kids, I became the bear of the house, constantly eating all leftovers. At one point, I remember my ex-wife telling me, “You eat constantly and never stop.”
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