• got this in an email

    This should make you smile! A Child's View of Thunderstorms A little girl walked to and from school daily. Though the weather that morning was questionable and clouds were forming, she made her daily trek to school. As the afternoon progressed, the winds whipped up, along with lightning. The…
  • DOVE NOTE #74 – A Host Of A Chance

    If you ever find that your house/apartment/shack/shoebox has been selected to host any type of social event – whether it be a friend’s birthday party, graduation dinner or movie screening for 20 Twihard teenagers – there are a few things you should know about proper hosting etiquet…
  • Lalon of Bangladesh

    My husband and I began our sponsorship of a little boy named Lalon who lives in Bangladesh with his mother and father, and three siblings. He is 11-years-old, loves soccer and art, attends school, and helps carry water and clean at home. Our sponsorship will help provide him with nutrition…
  • Smoke Detectors are Against My Religion

    That is what Amish are saying about smoke detectors. They claim it would be against their religious beliefs to have smoke detectors in their homes. A reporter talked to Mose Miller at his doorstep with his nine children looking on. It was cold: -15C (5F). Most of the kids were in bare feet. Their…
  • My New Autism-Warrior-Anthem

    Donna Summer, the Queen of Disco, passed away this week at 63 after a long battle with cancer. Here is her last hit from 2008. I can't tell you how this song speaks to me about our fight for our children's rights....It's my new anthem.
  • 100 Lucky Chinatown Children Mural Repair

    A mural I did two years ago at the old Nam Yuen restaurant site in San Francisco Chinatown. TAGGED! Time to get to work...4:30am Worked around this sleeping homeless guy. He slept right through it. I think he has sleep apnea. Going to paint another coat of Chinatown Red. I'm deb…
  • Pregnancy, Older or Younger?

    First, let me tell you that I am never having children, so all of this information is irrelevant to me. Now that thats out of the way... People are getting pregnant at older ages. Historically, you could be married and pregnant by the ripe old age of 14 (not that the pregnant thing has really ch…
  • What Is Freedom?

    May 19, 2012 The Vanishing Feeling of Freedom By Daren Jonescu Posted at: AmericanThinker.com The primary reason why it is so difficult to defend political liberty today is because freedom is a rational construct, and thus cannot be understood by the irrational. Children, or adults who…
  • The Power of the Powerless

    I remember reading a story about a rather wealthy Indian lady who volunteered to work for Mother Teresa for a day, back in the years before Mother Teresa was an international celebrity. This Indian lady arrived at the clinic, which was a house for the dying, and was instantly overwhelmed by what sh…
  • Autism... or Not

    (Aidan in a firetruck at the Cinco de Mayo festival) Before my nearly two-year hiatus from Xanga I posted mostly about my oldest son, Aidan. He was two-years-old at the time and had been diagnosed with ASD (autism spectrum disorder) and bi-polar disorder. This came after a whirlwind of…