Child Abuse Survivor Blog

  • Home again

    Made it home again safely. I’ve put together a gallery of pictures from the vacation here, hope you enjoy them! As if to remind me of why it’s important to enjoy these things in your life while you can, I returned home to news that one of my roomates from way back in my college…

  • Good memories

    I’ve written before about how much I love the sound of a train whistle on a summer night, because I can remember that sound from visiting my grandparents. Visiting them on Long Island every summer was one of the few times that I was able to feel safe and just be a happy child. Well…

  • Link suggestions?

    I’ve been watching some of the blogs that I link to in the blogroll on the front page of this site slowly go away, just stop updating, or morph into something else. So I’m officially going to start looking for more “Inspirational Blogs” in my surfing. As always, I’m looking for examples of regular people…

  • High School students learn about child abuse

    I ran across this article today, about a high school in Minnesota and how they have, for several years now, assigned students a senior research project on child abuse. I think this is great, and I think that the more people we can get talking, thinking, acknowledging and listening to survivors, the more tools we…

  • Survey

    YoMonkey posted a survey in the forums, hoping that some folks will take the time to help her with a study she is conducting to help high school kids understand the effects of child abuse. You can send her an email from that post with your answers, or, I suppose, you could just answer them…