Electric company repair men and women are brave and work hard to restore energy to their customers when there is storm damage. It is a dangerous job.
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Posted in birth, career, celebrity, children, custody fight, death, denial, emergency, emotions, entertainment, Fame, family, future, grief, health, Heart, hospital, illness, kids, legacy, legal, life, loss, love, media, medical, mom, mother, music, news, Twitter on Jun 25th, 2009
News reports Michael Jackson is hospitalized with possible cardiac arrest…rumors of death.
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Posted in Blogging, children, communication, crime, death, disaster, disease, Education, emergency, emotions, family, Fear, Fun, grandchildren, health, home, illness, kids, life, loss, media, mental and physical health, mom, mother, news, observations, online traffic, opinion, pain and misery, parenting, protect, relationships, responsibility, safety, school, service, teens, trauma, Uncategorized, violence, well-being on May 23rd, 2009
Well, it is the end of the school year; that means kids and young adults are ready for summer vaction. They are seeking sun and fun. Parents it is a good time to remind them and ourselves to also be aware of safety. Safety can involve many aspects around our summer activities. First and foremost, summer means heat. After [...]
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Posted in Beauty, celebrity, competition, contest, courage, emergency, emotions, encouragement, entertainment, expectations, Faith, Fame, friendship, health, Heart, help, home, hospital, Impact, inspiration, leadership, life, loss, love, marriage, media, medical, mental and physical health, mentoring, Models, news, observations, of connections, opinion, pain and misery, physician, politics, relationships, respect, responsibility, restlessness, expectations, callings, sadness, support, surgery, television, trauma, values, violence on May 14th, 2009
A couple of news items that caught my attention today: the chimpanzee that attacked it’s owners friend, Charla Nash, and horribly caused facial damage as well as causing her to lose her hands, was found to definitely have some levels of Xanax in his system. When the incident first happened, there were some news reports [...]
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Posted in Advocating for special needs, charitable organizations, charity, children, commitment, compassion, culture, diet, economy, emergency, encouragement, family, finances, giving, grandchildren, help, home, ideas, Impact, kids, leadership, life, media, news, pain and misery, parenting, poverty, publicity, responsibility, support on May 5th, 2009
Ok, those of you with mailboxes (those without can go to their local post office to donate) …here is something you can do to help stamp out hunger in your own back yard. The United States Postal Services is orchestrating one of the largest food pantry drives ever created to help get donations for [...]
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Posted in abuse, anger, children, control, crime, death, depression, domestic violence, Education, emergency, emotions, failure, family, fathers, Fear, government, grief, help, horror, illness, kids, law enforcement, life, loss, love, marriage, media, medical, mental and physical health, mother, murder, news, observations, pain and misery, parenting, personal development, power, protect, relationships, respect, responsibility, sadness, safety, sickness, suicidal, suicide, Suicide prevention, support, teens, Toxic, trauma, trust, violence on May 5th, 2009
Once again a news story breaks my heart because of unnecessary violence. A man by the name of Troy Ryan Bellar who lived in Florida shot and killed most of his immediate family. The family lived in Florida and evidently was in the middle of a domestic dispute. The reason for the violence has not been [...]
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Posted in Advocating for special needs, Blogging, children, culture, diet, economy, elderly, emergency, emotions, family, Fear, finances, Frustration, government, health, help, Impact, inspiration, kids, leadership, life, MONEY, news, observations, online traffic, parenting, poverty, power on Apr 17th, 2009
Hey, do you know anyone who is hungry? I mean, hungry as in, not just wanting a snack…but someone who has no idea where their next meal is going to come from? Someone who’s cupboard is bare like the old children’s rhyme Old Mother Hubbard? If you do, I learned something new…getting food for [...]
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Posted in abuse, anger, children, crime, culture, death, domestic violence, elderly, emergency, emotions, family, Fear, finances, Frustration, grief, health, kids, law enforcement, life, loneliness, loss, mental and physical health, murder, news, observations, organizations for special needs, pain and misery, protect, sadness, safety, television, trauma, Uncategorized, violence on Mar 31st, 2009
When are people going to wake up to the fact that we need to stop allowing instances of evil and violence to be glorified on television, movies, books and in our music? Isn’t it obvious that the world has been turning this garbage into “entertainment” and that it is having a terrible influence on [...]
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Posted in Advocating for special needs, Amazing, attitude, baby, Beauty, birth, charity, children, comfort, compassion, death, emergency, emotions, Fame, family, Fear, finances, Frustration, future, giving, health, Heart, help, Impact, inspiration, kids, leadership, life, loss, love, media, mental and physical health, mom, MONEY, mother, news, observations, opinion, Opportunities, organizations for special needs, pain and misery, parenting, poverty, pregnancy, publicity, respect, sadness, service, Sisterhood, support, travel, water shortage, well-being on Feb 12th, 2009
If you were traveling through a poverty striken area and you had a baby of your own that you were still nursing…could you walk away from a hungry newborn baby that had nothing to eat? Actress Salma Hayek was in Sierra Leone on a humanitarian mission…she nursed an African newborn who was starving because [...]
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Posted in Australia, crime, death, disaster, ecology, emergency, emotions, environment, Faith, family, Fear, help, home, horror, hospital, hospitals, life, loss, murder on Feb 9th, 2009
Breaking news of a horrific nature…Australia has been experiencing some terrible fires, overnight, that has caused major damage to some towns and at least 84 deaths. Although that number may continue to climb as they gain control of the brush fires. There are many who were hospitalized with burns and some of them may yet lose [...]
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