I am a firm believer in "it takes a village". I believe it starts in our neighborhood, expanding into our community, our state, our country, and the world. Often times to help someone in a developing country it takes so little on our part. Our loose change often times provide a weeks worth of food ...
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The day started out like any other Monday. I got up, ate a bowl of some tasteless cereal, drank a cup of coffee and played on Facebook while my kids scrambled for their pencils, papers and books to start our school day. We went through our lessons and then a few hours later I was ...
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Last night I watched the show Radical Parenting on Discovery Health. The three families featured were set out to be examples of unschooling, attachment parenting, and gender neutral parenting. I wasn't sure what to expect but hoped that the show would be balanced and objective. While I am not an unschooler, ...
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Today I learned that prisoners have the constitutional right to free health care. Well, it isn't exactly free, we the tax payers pay for it. But do you know why prisoners get free health care, it is because of the Eighth Amendment. It was decided that it was cruel and unusual punishment not to ...
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Eight years ago today I felt as if I had been made whole, restored, on an operating table at 12:58pm as my son Jack was lifted from my body. Infertility, miscarriages, and a traumatic emergency cesarean section had left me feeling broken and robbed. While there were parts of me that could never be fixed, ...
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