COLLEEN DECIDES TO GO BIG Part 1
[I wrote this as a tribute to a friend, who trusted me to tell her story. It is a little long, but there is so much to tell.]The school bell finally rang, and my third-grade students filed out for the weekend. “Bye, Ms. Colleen. Have a nice weekend,” they said. I smiled, because I knew my weekend would be a lot of things, but “nice” wasn’t one.I’m Colleen, a 44 year-old married schoolteacher, and most people know me as a churchgoing mother of two teenagers. About two months ago, though, I...