I live about an hour away from Blacksburg, Va. I just wanted to take the time to say that the families of all of the students at VA Tech are in my thoughts and prayers tonight. While sitting in my classroom tonight at our local college, all I could think about was how easily something like that could happen to any of us. It's true that "There but for the grace of God go I". I can't imagine the horror and the grief that those families are facing. Every mother's worst fear is losing a child. How awful it would be to have a child there and not know if they were safe. It made me want to hold my children very close tonight. I just can't think of the words to describe how horrific this is. It just goes to show that our small towns can't keep out the ugly parts of the world forever.