I love to volunteer every so often. It fills me with purpose and turns me towards hope, something my tank always feels low on these days. Best of all, what I get from volunteering is participating in it for the good of other people. The trouble is, I think I got used to the couple…
Every pregnant woman comes into the beginning of her nine months with a different frame of mind. Some are apprehensive new moms; some are seasoned, carrying their fourth kid. Some have been waiting for this moment for a long time, while others are pleasantly shocked but a bit scared for the baby to arrive. Y’all…
January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month and January 11 is Human Trafficking Awareness Day. It’s never too early to have meaningful dialogues with your children and teens about the issue of child abuse and sex traffic recruitment, an epidemic in America. The media reports stories about sex trafficking sting operations involving minors every day. And…
I think we all want our children to grow up and become kind, upstanding, generous people. But, how do we figure out the right way to teach them to be those people? For quite some time, people have tried to figure out how exactly they can get their kids to share without crying and show…
Firehouse Subs’ eighth annual H2O for Heroes bottled water collection drive takes place Saturday, August 3. Each guest will receive a free medium sub in exchange for donating one (1) 24-pack of bottled water, benefitting local fire and police departments, emergency victims, senior and community centers, and more. Losing just 1.5 percent of the body’s…
2017 Statistics identify that the number of children abducted or that go missing every day in the United States is 2,160. That is enough kids to fill an entire large population size school that do not return home every day. The National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrown Away Children (NISMART) has found that…
