Posted in Advocating for special needs, attitude, comfort, commitment, compassion, death, elderly, emotions, encouragement, family, Fear, future, giving, grief, health, Heart, help, home, hospital, illness, life, loneliness, loss, medical, ministry, observations, of connections, organizations for special needs, pain and misery, Passing Away, relationships, respect, sadness, service, sickness, special needs, spiritual, support, trauma on Apr 27th, 2009
Over the years I have had a fleeting glimpse into the help that Hospice (end of life care) has to offer. Patients who have been diagnosed with an illness or disease that is an advanced chronic disease or illness; the focus is on comfort (physically, spiritually, and emotionally). Hospice care does not have a cure [...]
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Posted in Advocating for special needs, charity, commitment, compassion, disease, Education, emotions, health, help, hospital, illness, life, medical, mental and physical health, MONEY, news, observations, of connections, organizations for special needs, pain and misery, science, service, sickness, special needs, support on Apr 23rd, 2009
Stephen Hawking’s, physicist, has made the news recently, because he has been hospitalized in ill health. Stephen Hawkings was diagnosed with ALS or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis over 40 years ago; and, he has still managed to live a productive life. ALS is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. It is never good news when someone [...]
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Posted in baby, birth, children, commitment, compassion, Education, family, fathers, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, finances, giving, goals, health, Heart, help, Impact, inspiration, kids, leadership, life, loss, medical, mental and physical health, mom, MONEY, mother, news, observations, of connections, organizations for special needs, pain and misery, parenting, pregnancy, relationships, Teen Pregnancy, Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2009
It’s Spring and that means that it is time once again to March For Babies for the March of Dimes. The walk used to be called Walk America. The walk is designed to raise awareness or to educate; and, to raise money to help prevent birth defects. Out of every dollar raised .77 cents [...]
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Posted in accomplishments, Blogging, career, Celebration, celebrity, charitable organizations, charity, children, commitment, communication, compassion, contest, Education, emotions, Fame, family, giving, goals, health, help, Impact, inspiration, leadership, life, loyalty, media, mental and physical health, micro media (social networking), MONEY, news, observations, of connections, online traffic, opinion, Opportunities, organizations for special needs, poverty, power, publicity, publisher, publishing, relationships, support, Twitter on Apr 16th, 2009
The biggest and baddest challenge on the internet, at the moment, is the one that Ashton Kutcher the actor, has going on; he is trying to hit 1 million followers on Twitter before CNN does. You can see a video of the challenge here on People magazine online: http://www.people.com. So far, he is making headway…as the news [...]
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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 accomplishments, adoption, Advocating for special needs, Blogging, children, encouragement, mental and physical health, organizations for special needs, parenting, special needs on Jan 2nd, 2009
If you are the parent of a special needs child then you know that growing up special in today’s world is not easy. Finding ways to help your child be successful and to be as independent as they can be is often a challenge. Too often those children, or young adults, are shuffled off [...]
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Posted in abandonment, anger, children, Christmas, crime, custody fight, death, depression, divorce, emotions, family, finances, friendship, help, Holiday, home, husband, life, loss, love, marriage, mental and physical health, mother, murder, news, organizations for special needs, pain and misery, parenting, Passion, relationships, sadness, suicidal, suicide, support, trauma, Uncategorized, violence on Jan 2nd, 2009
For those who have not heard the news story this past week; a man by the name of Bruce Pardo dressed up as Santa and went on a shooting rampage directed at his ex-wife and her family. He was aware that they held an annual Christmas party. He had been planning this for quite [...]
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Posted in charity, children, death, economy, emotions, Faith, family, finances, giving, health, Heart, help, home, ideas, life, loss, medical, mental and physical health, military, ministry, MONEY, news, observations, Opportunities, organizations for special needs, pain and misery, Patriotism, seasons, service, teens, weather, well-being, Winter on Nov 25th, 2008
People are funny; when things get tight…their fists often get tighter; but not always. This year, like no other year in recent memory, people are hurting. They are hurting in many areas financially. Many have lost their homes, their jobs, their savings…along with medical coverage. It is a difficult time for many in our nation. Most [...]
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Posted in abuse, Advocating for special needs, armed forces, authors, Blogging, children, crime, culture, death, denial, elderly, emotions, family, finances, government, health, Heart, history, horror, Impact, Labor, law enforcement, legal, life, media, mental and physical health, military, MONEY, news, organizations for special needs, pain and misery, power, publishing, relationships, Remembering, safety, sex, travel, well-being on Oct 21st, 2008
Slavery exists even today; i know that that sounds like an inflammatory statement but it is true. It is just not talked about in any kind of real, life changing way. I read a book recently which opens up a whole new way of looking at the world. It is rather frightening. Slavery exists [...]
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