Should I be defending my existence? Should you? Do we need to validate our lives with achievements or awards? Are we invalidated, if we don't have alphabet soup after our names or some big social media presence. Or maybe we need to just prove that...
Words are not enough to fully understand one another. On occasion, text conveys perfectly, but most often body language, facial expressions, and other context clarifies. The best communication involves a multi-sensory experience. Blogs and Books Blogs and books may be excluded, because the length of text is...
If you are anything like me, you spend time on social media. That's when it seems most that the world is upside-down.I care deeply for people and have joined numerous groups that evoke strong feelings. From adult survivors of child sexual abuse to human trafficking...
I strongly believe that discretion is the height of compassion, especially for victims of crime.A couple of weeks ago, the story of Brock Turner was broadly publicized. His face was splattered all over social media and rightly so. He perpetrated crimes, for which he was...
Have you ever seen the game, Whack-a-Mole? It is the size of a foosball table with jack-in-the-box action of furry creatures that pop up in random fashion. The goal is to hit them with an oversized rubber mallet. They pop up, but just as quickly...
It's been one of those days. Every inanimate object is my enemy today. I haven't even seen any people yet; not even a digital interaction and I am frustrated and exhausted.I wake up in pain. That's just my life with Lyme, but some days it's...
Skip Murphy asked me if I thought we were at a tipping point of the country moving over to the pro-life position during an interview last week. He noted the CMP videos and the ensuing social media commotion.The main stream media is largely ignoring the...
With all of the recent exposure of Planned Parenthood in the news and all over social media recently, I though it might be helpful to know that there are a lot of life-affirming things going on too.There are still many pregnancy care centers helping women...