Blogging as therapy
Saw a pointer today from the World of Psychology blog to an article entitled Cyber-Catharsis: Bloggers Use Web Sites as Therapy Go ahead, read the article, then come back and read my thoughts….
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Another male survivor comes forward
Anyone who knows me knows that I have had the utmost respect for Sheldon Kennedy, a former NHL hockey player, for not only coming out and talking about the sexual abuse he survived at the hands of a youth hockey coach, but also helping put the coach in jail and all if the programs he…
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Call for contributors
I got an email yesterday and with Dyana’s permission I’m reproducing it here for all my readers to see and respond to, if they so choose! You can respond directly to Dyana at dyperkins@nospam.yahoo.com. (Take out the nospam part, I’m trying to limit the number of email harvesters who pick up the address from this…
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A little reading
I got an email last week from Robert Eggleton, about a novel he has written, Rarity from the Hollow: [quote]Lacy Dawn, the protagonist, is a victim of child abuse from an impoverished hollow of a rural state who overcomes by empowering others and ends up saving the universe. She is a composite character based on…
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Another loss
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…
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Lawrence Lessig
This morning while reading through my usual feeds, I was taken aback by a post on Robert Scoble’s blog. He talks about finding a link to an article on New York Metro about the American Boychoir School and a lawsuit being brought by someone who was a victim of molestation while attending the school. In…