Child Abuse Survivor Blog

  • Good Advice

    How to help someone with a mental health concern. I especially agree with the first rule, “Offer your Friendship and Support”. You’d be surprised how effective you can be just by being available to listen. It may not seem like much, but it is so infrequent that someone actually takes the time to really stop…

  • Holiday time

    It occurs to me as I write this, that many of us are probably dealing with holiday stress right about now, or at least will be some time soon. Between the holiday cards, shopping,  the get-togethers and the family gatherings, the holidays can be a whole lot of work. It can be a pretty exhausting…

  • November Carnival Against Child Abuse

    It’s up over at Cerebralmum’s. With this being the month of Thanksgiving, she gave it a Gratitude Theme. Looks like there’s some good reading over there, and since I’m trying to rid myself of this cold, I think I’ll spend some time reading through it! Technorati Tags: CarnivalAgainstchildAbuse, BlogCarnival, Gratitude

  • Upgrading

    I just upgraded the site to the newest version of Movable Type. I think everything is working correctly, aside from the blogroll. I’ve got that “sort of fixed”, in that it displays, but I won’t be able to add any new blogs to it until the plugin develop updates it to work with MT 4,…

  • Thankfulness

    Yesterday was the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, which of course makes today the biggest shopping day of the year as everyone gets the jump on Christmas shopping. (Well not everyone, I haven’t even left the house today, though I do have some plans with a friend for dinner, so I’m not a complete…

  • New York Photos

    For any of you who might be interested, I did manage to get some photos from the trip to New York last week posted to Flickr. Now that I’m done with all the traveling, at least for now, I should have more time to actually say something of interest around here. Soon…. Enjoy!