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Four Great Books to Add to Your Reading List

Here are some great reads that I wanted to share with you because I enjoyed them.  None of these books are on easy topics, but they are all valuable story lines and explore the concept of children experiencing trauma. 1.     The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Heidi W. Durrow  Based on the [...]

Food and Money Insights

“No matter what the outcome, when u labor with all your heart, making your very being manifest in your efforts, u do not labor in vain.”   Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ 4/19/2011 For days I have been wandering around my house feeling very hungry and yet nothing that I have available to eat sounds [...]

The Long Goodbye: A Memoir ~Meghan O’Rourke

This is a loving story of a “normal” family who experienced the loss of the Mother and Wife to colon cancer.  It is a story about their growing and parented years, it is the story about the years of sickness and the family’s responses and actions, and is introspective of that which a daughter understands [...]

Food for Thought Holiday

My children used to ask me what food do we eat to celebrate Martin Luther King Day? My answer has been, it is a food for thought day.  It is a day for me to listen to great speeches, understand the principles of Nonviolence and then communicate those principles with the actions of my words [...]