Snippets from Favorite Autumn Posts
I’m lamenting autumn’s pending ending. Especially this year, possibly the last of six beautiful years in New England where colorful hills spread like patchwork ...
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We are moving and I feel…
Coffee and watching petals fall with morning rain from courtyard tree.Sound, comforting.Site, lovely.Sentiment, sad but hopeful. In a few hours, our tree will n...
Spoken Word: The Artful Testimony of an Abused Girl
This woman’s testimony is powerful. So many people feel what she feels and are quiet. So many people do not know what she and others feel and choose ignorance ...
End Demand Loudly
Good men have a choice between ending demand quietly (not soliciting sex, but not talking about it either) and ending demand loudly. Speak out. Watch a short v...
Buy Ethically
Most of us agree, it is good to buy ethically sourced products, but how?
Pantomime Videos Say A Lot
mtvU made these beautifully done informative videos and a neat interactive website. Interact and watch here http://thebackstory.mtv.com/.
Musical movies and shows and prose.
This week I saw the film rendition of one of my favorite musical plays and the musical play rendition of one of my favorite movies. Les Miserables and Once Chri...
When the baby got stuck in the bathroom and couldn’t get out
Last night, my 14-month-old decided to close himself in my parent’s hall bathroom. Not a strange occurrence except that he also scooted the narrow glass-topped...
veggies & birdies & music & coffee
Reaching for carrot shoots and loose potatoes on farm stands, pointing at hopping finches, watching where the folk music is coming from and bobbing his head to ...
Understanding Sex Traffickers
May I cut and paste from BibleGateway.com? Psalm 10 2 In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak, who are caught in the schemes he devises. 3 He bo...
Songs for Moms
I Get to be the One by JJ Heller You Make Me Believe in Love by JJ Heller Keep You Safe by JJ Heller Seeds by Brooke Fraser In My Arms by Plumb I Am by Jill Phi...
Crepes in Quebec in Autumn
Warm nutella in a delicate crepe leaves little to be desired. Especially when eaten in a 17th century structure next door to the Chateau Frontenac in the forti...
Vengeance Is Not Mine
I often apply God’s encouraging words for Judah to His encouragement for victims of sex trafficking. Today, I read in Jeremiah 50:34, All their captors hold th...
Love True in the Newspaper
To read Bob Makin’s September 28 article about Love True, the awesome organization I am helping found, click http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/Central-Jers...
What about Second Breakfast?
After Blue Eyes had finished his banana and cheerio breakfast (we are trying to learn baby sign language, but currently he makes his sentiments known by trying ...
Simple Pleasures
I had $4.03 to spend at the Rutgers University farmers market. I tasted some sausage and some wine and a butter-toasted pecan then spent what I had: Spinach tu...
Favorite Passtimes of a 10-month-old
Emptying the shoe rack Climbing on top of the empty shoe rack Climbing on top of the toy chest Climbing on top of the printer Staring longingly into the bathtub...
Truth Through Fiction
The miniseries, Human Trafficking, tells stories about the business, victimization and fighting of human trafficking.
The Fullness of Emptiness
After 9 months of pregnancy and 5 months of kicks and flips and hiccups, I had grown very close to my son. Pun intended. And once his body left my body, I fel...
Fighting Human Trafficking through Legislation
There are currently three bills being considered in congress that could dramatically improve conditions for child victims of sexual exploitation and enable bett...
Controversial Article
“…Erotic media perpetuates the objectification of humans, the rejection of love as selfless and the promotion of sex as recreation…and when we think a misuse of...
Thought Provoking
I’m not making a statement by posting this comic, my thought were just provoked by it. I want to know what you thinking about it.
This Saturday
Love True is hosting an awareness event July 21st at 6:30 pm. Come and learn about the sex trade in New Jersey, Love True’s vision and steps you can take to hel...
It’s a Small World
Chris and I visited a little church in the little town of Mt. Vernon, TX last Sunday where my parents introduced us to their realtor. Not far into the conversa...
I’m loving this!
In America http://www.fairtradetownsusa.org/
One Thousand Gifts III
In January and March, I posted lists of little things I am thankful for as Ann Voskamp did in her best selling book, “One Thousand Gifts.” See the rest of my li...
“Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers”
Day 8 of the 40 Day Prayer Guide for Orphan Care www.pearpod.com/oc/downloads/40DaysofPrayer.pdf: “Today, pray for the Lord to raise up workers for the harvest ...