Alice Pero

Alice Pero is a really wonderful poet. I have had the pleasure of meeting her, and she's just a really great lady.

You can read some of Alice Pero's poems here:

Alice Pero

Alice Pero, A Poem to Eat


This is a great collection of poems by Alice Pero, and others:
Alice Pero, Page 42


Mindfire Poetry has two of Alice's poems:

Alice Pero's Counting and Dancing

and

Held Love


Poetic Voices - Alice Pero's poem Employment

Here are the lyrics to one of my favorite Christmas songs:

Carol of the Bells

A frightening new trend in public schools is the TeenScreen program.

This is, believe it or not, a computer program - provided by a private company that makes oodles of money from it - that actually DIAGNOSES CHILDREN FOR MENTAL ILLNESS.

That's right. Psychiatrists aren't even pretending mental illness is a medical condition anymore, apparently. A computer can evaluate and diagnose your child, based on a simple questionnaire.

If you have kids in public school, you need to be aware that this program in some places operates with "passive consent" - meaning, they will send home a note, and if your child forgets to give it to you, your consent will be implied.

You MUST read up on this if you have school-aged children. One family is suing TeenScreen, after their perfectly normal daughter was told she was mentally ill. She had clicked "yes" on a couple of the questions, so after she took this little computer test she was taken into the hallway and told she was mentally ill.

Pretty crazy stuff.