If it takes a village to raise a child, I am the village elder that leads youth to discover who they are and who they want to become. Blog is moving to updated Minds On Fire website! March 12, 2014. Which now hosts this blog. If you subscribe to posts by email, you will able to do the same with the new blog. If you follow me on your WP Reader, the good people at WP will move your subscriptions over shortly.

Where faith and pop culture meet. Did you ever skip a rite of passage as a kid only to wish you could do it as an adult? I never had a slumber party as a kid. I was a gold-plated, grade A, first class giggler. They probably drove host parents to a big bottle of Advil, but at a slumber party? Now, I never f.

Caring More Than a Feeling of a Broken Heart. I am now just able to write .

Improving Life for Children In Foster Care.

Love, life, grief, motherhood and the motherless mama. This is my truth about my first year as a motherless mother. After the birth of your baby, your grief will return. The loss of your mother will sting the way it did when it first happened. You will miss her with the intensity you felt in those first few months and milestones after her death. You will fantasize about how things would be if she were alive. You will be so desperate fo.

Exploring ways to make a difference. Eleven months down, and how the time has flown. What a wonderful year of learning, thinking, and planning. How rare it is to have the opportunity to prioritise the gathering and application of knowledge, and yet how critical it is that we do this. With one final month of my year to go it seems timely to stop and reflect on the journey so far.

I chose a few images for my version. Cars on the mountain pass, Taroko Gorge. I strive to be in this state, no matter how turbulent my thoughts are. An accurate perception of reality comes from a place of calm.