Remembering The Pains And Triumphs Of 2008

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Liz and our niece, LaNiyah.

Juliet, a regular reader and author of LifeMadeGreat, mentioned the importance of pondering the past year, before pushing toward the future.  It was a small sentence, embedded in her comment on Monday’s post, but it was all I needed to break out my mental photo album and start the gears grinding.

2008, for me, was filled with many extremes in emotion with a few sobering moments to boot.  It was a year of birth, mis-birth, and many new marriages.  Odd things happened, like us kids being the ones already married and all our parents walking down aisles.  Liz became pregnant, then not, and then once more.  And now I’m moving away from a 5 year old business, in pursuit of something greater.  The roller coaster ride was one to remember. Read more »

Blog Action Day 2008: The Many Faces Of Poverty

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Editor’s note: My focus in this post is on the poverty of developed nations like the US and the UK; not that of third world countries.  I think the needs and therefore the conversation, drastically change depending on the level of poverty being discussed.

Today is Blog Action Day and as most of you already know, the subject is ‘Poverty’.  I’ve had this in the back of my mind since I first signed up a few months ago.  “How can I talk about poverty when I’ve never really felt the pains of true hunger?  How can I even start to give advise or tips on the subject, let alone know where the greatest needs are?” Read more »