Susan Bennett

My mother was a hard worker. Besides being a wife, mother and homemaker, she worked several jobs during my childhood. She was a nurse’s aide when I was very young

I often think about my former students and players from my teaching and coaching days. You hope when you are in the position of a teacher or a coach that

What is some of the best advice you've ever been given? More importantly, did you take that advice?

There was a story that made national news recently about a lady that was dead at her work desk for four days before anybody noticed. It was both shocking and

At the end of this month I will have completed another trip around the sun. Birthdays, although far less anticipated now than when I was a kid, still deserve to

Every morning as I open my eyes and before I get out of bed, I play a little game in my head called What’s Gonna Hurt Today? or Wheel of

November — the month of gratitude and giving thanks. Sometimes being grateful is hard. After all, as humans we have a tendency to make things harder and worse than they

There is that old joke, “Sometimes I just wake up crabby. Other days I let him/her sleep.” Silly, but honestly true. Sometimes you do just wake up crabby — yourself,

As I write today, it is the weekend before Thanksgiving. A newly established family tradition since I moved to Arizona is that my sister who lives in Idaho comes to

By the time this publishes, we will be on our winter break. That is a good thing. December is a hard month in any school system. The students become more