I had mde a post at the end of last week about our trip to Richmond and all the work that was left when I got back, and a pointer to this idea in the forums for keeping track of Child Abuse Awareness month activities, but apparently, my host must have restored the backup from a day before that post or something. Sorry about that. I’ll have to see what’s going on.
We have spent so much of our lives trying to survive, and protect ourselves, that the confidence that comes from making our own decisions, or overcoming new challenges is a foreign concept. We want nothing less than to have anything change, and yet life is all about change. We can’t avoid change, we can only learn to deal with it.
I just went live with another blog on the site, Survivors News and Reviews. The idea is for this to be more of a group blog, but I’ll let the welcome message over there speak for itself. Let me know what you think!
Since we’ve been having all this discussion about friendship and relationships, I thought I would pose a question. When you tell people about your abuse or talk to them about specific issues surrounding it, suffering from depression for example, how would you like them to react? What do you expect from your friends, family, significant…
So it’s April 1st. But for me, especially this year, it’s no time for pranks. 😉 April 1 was the day of my first date with the woman who would become my wife, in 2000, so it’s always been a day of great beginnings. This year, April 1 is the day I arrived in Greenville,…
I was having a discussion with my wife tonight about giving blood and all the eligibility requirements that the Red Cross has added to keep the blood supply disease-free when we realized, that I can’t give blood. I hadn’t ever realized that before. I’ve not been a regular donater of blood by any stretch, because…
(ed. Another review from our English friend, who adds: you can still read the intro on Amazon’s British site, don’t know if the American side has the same;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Altar-Story-Homosexual-Catholic-church/dp/1844880397/ref=pd_ys_iyr3) Though we’ve read and watched a lot of newspaper and documentary reports on the subject, I find it hard to relate to religiously organised, systematic child abuse…
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