Prose in Honor of Those Who Help Us Who Are Blind in the Unknown
In life, I typically feel like I am playing house, as if it is a game. Sometimes I am blind in the unknown seasons of adulting, like now, as we are moving accross the country. The last weeks have been a crazy rush while prepping to move to San Diego (you can read...
The Ice Cream Flavor Where We Are Moving (and It is Not Milwaukee)
A year ago, my husband received a call from an HR chick who had actually called him eight months earlier. It was about an opportunity in Milwaukee--yes, that frozen tundra--that had fallen off the radar. Very quickly, many seemingly perfect things fell into place and...
748 Million: World Water Day
Start Counting Down The great thing about advocacy is that you can look back and see you have made a difference. The bad thing about advocacy is that your goal can only be achieved by working yourself out of a job. But, I think there are enough things to...
Community Living: How To Talk About Adoption/Fostering
I recently read the post Six Comments about Adoption That Can Be Offensive focused on helping individuals recognize insensitivity when talking about adoption/fostering. Although I appreciated the intent of this post--highlighting what can be offensive--after I...
Five Steps to Take Part in the End It Movement
Once a year, a bunch of people take a picture of a red "X" on their hand and share it with the world, declaring that we need to stop modern slavery as part of the End It Movement. A grassroots social movement to create awareness? Okay! It might be slactivism, but it...
How To Collect Bras For Free The Girls
This year as part of the Little Black Dress Project, I am excited to announce we are also collecting Bras for Free the Girls though the month of March! I am always fascinated by normal people coming up with great ideas that change the world, and Free the Girls...
How Becoming a Humanitarian Blogger Went Better Than Planned
Have you ever been challenged to take a step in life that scared you? Five years ago I decided to do something different. Although I had already been blogging since 2005, I felt like I should start a different type of website than I ever had before, one...
LBD Project 2015
Little Black Dress Project March 2015 Update: Our Little Black Dress Project goal this year was raise a total of $5000 to help eradicate human trafficking and we surpassed it, fundraising over $7000 and collecting over 70 bras! By wearing the same...
Action Idea: Pass This Stand-Alone Sex Trafficking Law
Today, with the Kids are Not For Sale Coalition, supporters all over Virginia are hoping to spread the word loud and clear: LET'S FINALLY PASS THIS! THERE ISN'T A STAND-ALONE SEX TRAFFICKING LAW IN VIRGINIA BUT WE NEED ONE! Okay, be honest. Did you know that?...
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PopularSwamp Wisdom: An Ecclesiastes on Human Rights
Ever heard of ancient King Solomon? He was said to be the wisest of them all as he philosophized...
Busy Moms, Community, Family & Relationships, Raising Kids
PopularStorm Chaser; Change Chaser: On Saying Goodbye
How Can Anyone Say Goodbye? I’m starting to feel all panicky that I am leaving all my...
Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Mental Health, Recovery, Safe Spaces
PopularUnderstanding Terms for Poor Nations vs. Rich Nations
Terms of Poverty Whether in public political addresses or in pleas from non-profits, we have all heard some of these terms thrown around at some point or another. But just because we can infer their general meaning, I...
Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Giving Back, Socially Conscious Brands
Top RatedThe Honest Truth About Loving Deeper (Art of Advocacy)
Loving others seemed good and something to be defined by. Until it was loving the same small group...
Children-in-Need, Clean Water, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Global Health, Good Charities, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Human Rights, Poverty, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States
Top RatedHow To Not Be a Bad Advocate for Social Change
Occasionally, the best way to learn how to do something well is by learning what not to do. I empower people to be good advocates for social change, but these days I am seeing a lot of bad activism. Here are things not to say if you want your advocacy and activism to be better-received.
Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking
Top RatedWhy We Need To Start Talking To Our Kids About Modern Slavery
Update 2021: This course is currently offline. Since, it has been renamed Conversations With...
Leadership
LatestResponding to Injustice With Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn
Do our responses to social issues reflect trauma responses? If so, how can we help ourselves to help others better?
Spiritual Discipleship
LatestWe Can’t Escape Real Life While Changemaking
We can't escape real life while we are changemaking. The context matters. Let's be aware of these four elements as we create change.
Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Productivity
LatestResponding to Injustice With Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn
Do our responses to social issues reflect trauma responses? If so, how can we help ourselves to help others better?
Poem for Changemakers
Why do Changemakers burnout? This poem for Changemakers was written to help them see their value.
Responding to Injustice With Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn
Do our responses to social issues reflect trauma responses? If so, how can we help ourselves to help others better?
We Can’t Escape Real Life While Changemaking
We can’t escape real life while we are changemaking. The context matters. Let’s be aware of these four elements as we create change.
Reducing Trauma’s Influence in Doing Good: Justice Daily – S2.E2.
How do we reduce trauma’s influence in our work of doing good? In this Justice Daily Interview with Michelle Stiffler, a trauma specialist, we learn about helping us endure beyond burnout and get real about Fight Flight, Fawn, Freeze
What is Happening With Migrants Near San Diego?
What is happening with migrants in San Diego? Are there really outdoor detention camps in Jucumba California for asylum seekers? Here’s what I saw.
Notes From Birmingham Jail & 60th Anniversary of the March
Honestly, I’ve never read more than clips of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s works, even though I’ve talked them up. A major world-changer, Dr. King is mostly known for his “I Have a Dream” speech...