Posted in Education, Fear, Heart, Heart to heart, Impact, MONEY, cancer, charitable organizations, chemo, children, comfort, communication, compassion, courage, depression, donate, emotions, environment, family, fathers, finances, grandchildren, grandparents, health, help, hospital, hospitals, inspiration, kids, life, loneliness, loss, medical, mother, news, observations, opinion, pain and misery, parenting, pharmacist, physician, relationships, responsibility, sadness, spiritual, support, teens, trauma, unhappiness on Jun 29th, 2010
Childhood cancer patients need comforting & this non-profit organization Friends Like Us are fundraising to help donate chemo bears to children affected by cancer.
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Posted in Heart, Heart to heart, Impact, Opportunities, Time, attitude, charitable organizations, chemo, children, comfort, compassion, donate, elderly, emergency, emotions, encouragement, environment, family, finances, health, help, holidays, home, hospital, hospitals, hunger, inspiration, joy, kids, leadership, learning, legacy, library, life, love, meals, medical, mental and physical health, mentoring, ministry, observations, of connections, opinion, pain and misery, parenting, service, stress, support, surgery, talent, talents, volunteering on Jun 10th, 2010
The Renucci Hospitality House in Grand Rapids Michigan provides temporary housing to families who have loved ones in the Spectrum Hospital. Volunteers are needed.
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Posted in Advocating for special needs, Business, Dreams, Education, Fear, Frustration, accomplishments, attitude, awareness, baby, birth, children, commitment, communication, compassion, disappointments, emotions, family, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, grief, health, help, hopes, hospital, hospitals, illness, kids, leadership, learning, life, love, medical, medicine, mental and physical health, observations, organizations for special needs, parenting, pregnancy, pregnancy, relationships, sadness, school, schools, sharing, success, words on Aug 18th, 2009
Parenting special needs children can be like taking a trip to Holland that you didn’t plan on. Louise Sattler shares her personal experience as a parent & educator.
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Posted in Advocating for special needs, Amazing, Business, Creating, Frustration, Heart, Impact, Opportunities, Passion, Twitter, accomplishments, adoption, awareness, baby, birth, children, coaching, commitment, communication, compassion, encouragement, family, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, foster parenting, grandchildren, grandparents, health, help, hospital, hospitals, leadership, learning, life, medical, mental and physical health, news, observations, of connections, organizations for special needs, parenting, patience, pregnancy, relationships, special needs, support, well-being, words, writing for children on Jul 31st, 2009
Louise Sattler has created a DVD for young children and babies to communicate with others through sign language. It is bi-lingual and benefits people with or without disabilities.
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Posted in Australia, Faith, Fear, crime, death, disaster, ecology, emergency, emotions, environment, family, 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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Posted in Education, Faith, Fear, Frustration, Heart, Impact, MONEY, adoption, baby, children, commitment, culture, economy, emergency, emotions, failure, family, fathers, finances, foster parenting, future, government, grandchildren, health, help, hospitals, kids, law enforcement, legal, life, loneliness, loss, love, media, mental and physical health, mom, news, of connections, pain and misery, parenting, pregnancy, relationships, safety, stress, support, trauma on Sep 25th, 2008
Another family has made the news by dropping off their children, 9 of them from ages 1 to 17 at a hospital in Nebraska. It is in my mind, in cases of abandonment, almost as if the children are treated like a litter of unwanted puppies. In mid July, Nebraska made its own news headlines by instituting a “safe [...]
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Posted in Advocating for special needs, Education, Faith, Fame, Family Time, Fear, Frustration, Green, Heart, Impact, Luck, Opportunities, Passion, Remembering, RobinRoberts, baby, cancer, celebrity, charitable organizations, chemo, children, comfort, commitment, courage, culture, death, elderly, emergency, emotions, encouragement, entertainment, family, fathers, finances, friendship, future, giving, goals, government, grandchildren, grief, health, help, history, hopes, hospitals, husband, inspiration, kids, law enforcement, library, life, loss, love, marriage, meaning of life, media, medical, mental and physical health, military, ministry, miracles, mom, mother, music, news, organizations for special needs, pain and misery, parenting, pharmacist, physician, politics, power, religion, science, spiritual, success, support, surgery on Aug 27th, 2008
Do you know anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer? Did you know that 1 out of 3 women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime…1 out of 2 men. So unless you are a family of one, with no friends and you are the luckiest person in the whole wide world…cancer is [...]
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Posted in Faith, Green, Impact, Patriotism, celebrity, commitment, culture, ecology, economy, family, finances, future, goals, government, hospitals, life, media, music, news, politics on Aug 25th, 2008
It may just be a bit presumptious to say so…but, i think that there are so many people who are dissatisfied with both the Republican and Democratic parties that we are going to see something that i tagged as a DemoPublican. That is to say, that people’s value systems lie somewhere in the middle of these [...]
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Posted in death, disaster, drivers, emergency, help, home, hospitals, loss, news, safety, storms on Jun 7th, 2008
Wow, just as schools get out for the summer…travelers have been hit with a double whammy. Not only do people have to plan their travel plans around construction zones…but, with all of the wild weather the central states have been experiencing, now they need to avoid areas hit with major flooding. It is worth taking [...]
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Posted in Fear, Remembering, courage, crime, emotions, health, hospitals, law enforcement, legal, medical, mental and physical health, news, pregnancy, science, sex, support, trauma, violence on May 27th, 2008
A new way of collecting physical evidence in rape cases is making news. It seems that many rape victims are leaving the medical setting; rather than, face another trauma of talking to; or, being interviewed by police after being raped. They are too frightened in some cases of dealing with the police; some are fearful of talking to police [...]
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