The November edition of the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse is coming up. I’ll be taking a turn at hosting it this month, and I’m looking forward to seeing all the ideas and writings that you all have been doing, so be sure to get your submissions in before Nov. 22!
Pin The question isn’t about sharing or not sharing, it’s about why we, as a society, tolerate the haters. Why, in a stadium full of tens of thousands of fans, did he have to take that on by himself? How many people heard someone tell a fellow human being to kill themselves and laughed?Â
How many people heard it or read about it and decided against asking for help? How many of them will we lose?Â
Yes it’s true, I’m actually taking some time off, and spending it offline. Starting today, until the last week of April, I will not be around. Now, that doesn’t mean my blogs or social network profiles will go quiet. I do have a number of things scheduled to post and share throughout the time I’ll…
This month was somewhat slow for contributions, I’m sure the holiday had a lot to do with it, keeping everyone busy and away from their blogs. On the other hand, there’s nothing like family time to inspire abuse survivors to write, so I’m looking forward to reading some of the post-holiday thoughts in the next…
Pin In my reading this week, I came across an article that discussed the dangers of telling ourselves only one story about ourselves. The article wasn’t specifically about abuse survivors, but it is something I have found to be very accurate. What he meant was that people get too attached to the stories they tell about…
OK I think I’ve gotten all the entries back. My lack of backups though has caused me some problems. All of the comments are basically gone, or at least would require way too much for me to get back. Also, permalinks might be confusing, at least until Google catches up to the fact that entries…
I’ve been reading a book about networking as part of my attempt to find a new job. Last night I was trying to work on a few of the exercises concerning professional goals, values, etc. One of the exercises was to list 5 accomplishmnets that I am proud of. Ha! Little do they know me,…
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