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How We Choose to Live during a Virus Outbreak

Virus Outbreak We are in unchartered waters. Never in my lifetime has media shared such fear of a pandemic outbreak or information of a virus spreading so quickly. I have no memory in my lifetime of events and industries shutting down like this before. There was concern over the year 2000, but it didn’t shut […]

Emotions are Human; A Foster Kid Story

Emotions are Human There is a story for each child in the Foster Home. Unbelievable things happen to every single child. And it is truly amazing how resilient the human spirit can be. I decided a long time ago that I would change the foster system by helping the kids one by one where I […]

Managing Anger

Managing Anger is important Life is never really fair. After babysitting, raising our children, fostering several children, and now working with orphans and children in foster group homes; managing anger is something we need to deal with regularly. In my experience over the last 20 years, it’s the food and the attitude that help us […]

Graduation Blues and Autism

Graduation Blues This is a tough one but written to honor autism moms all over the world. Our family will not be celebrating a graduation this year. When my son was born in 2000, it was really cool. We talked about how every monumental marker for his life was easily identifiable as a millennium baby. […]

Fat Makes a Difference in Foster Homes

Good Fat Makes a Difference for Kids I thought about where the most significant impact could happen without causing a massive disruption in the beginning of my time with this orphanage. As the volunteer Nutritional Therapist writing the menu with a friend, the food is where my influence begins. Decisively, I choose to start with […]

3 Ways to Thrive With Your Farmer, Family, and Children.

A Farmer is the Cornerstone to Our Efforts in Healing A farmer’s work is in every home. Every person needs to eat. It’s not an option, if you want to sustain life. Farmers are the foundation to every meal in this world. Now what you choose to put into your body is an option. As […]

Take Power -What Cancer Cannot Do!

Some days I catch my breath, tears fall and I gasp for air to pull myself together again. In these moments of remembering our little boy who changed our lives forever, it is incredibly clear that there are things Cancer Cannot Do! Take Power! Cancer whispers through quiet breaths as if it holds a power, and […]

How To Transform Pain into Power

I am an Alchemist and I transform my pain into power! Alchemy is the process of taking something ordinary and turning it into something extraordinary, sometimes in a way that cannot be explained.1 Life happens. Good and bad. So I choose to transform our pain into power. For me it was having a child with autism and […]