J2J Day 9: Intention
Lakeshore Drive in Chicago was impassable last night due to a record-setting blizzard. The Weather Channel is reporting thunder snow. We have sunshine in Seattle. It is time for me to […]
Tag Archives: emotional abuse
Sela Ann Ward: Founder of Hope Village
Sela Ward is the quintessential Southern belle. She and her husband Howard Sherman founded Hope Village in her home town of Meridian, Mississippi to give a real home to abused, abandoned, and neglected […]
Happy Birthday, Jane Fonda: 73 and Fabulous!
Jane Fonda is celebrating her 73rd birthday today (December 21). Her parents named her Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda after an ancestor who was the third wife of Henry VIII. She’s just […]
Celebrating the Life of Elizabeth Edwards
You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust the sails. Elizabeth Anania Edwards is being laid to rest today beside her beloved son Wade. I don’t think she […]
Saving Promise Comes to Seattle
Ginny Nicarthy, author of Getting Free: You Can End Abuse and Take Back Your Life and You can Be Free: An Easy-to-Read Handbook for Abused Women, kicked off L.Y. Marlow’s Saving Promise 10-city […]
Blitz Oprah’s Producers: Color Me Butterfly and Saving Promise Grassroots Campaign
Oprah’s last season launches on September 13, 2010. I’m one of those ultimate viewers who has been watching since day one when her show was A.M. Chicago. My life shifted […]
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Secrets to a Happy and Successful Life
We’re all on our own journey here. – Elizabeth Gilbert Life Is Like a Maze Do you sometimes feel like everybody else has the answers? Like everybody else got […]
Oprah’s Issues with Food Are Rooted in Her Grandmother’s Whippings
I’ve been watching Oprah since day one ~ way back when she replaced Rob Weller as the host of A.M. Chicago ~ way before there was an international Oprah […]
Book Review: SOLDIER’S HEART: Close-up Today with PTSD in Vietnam Veterans by William Schroder and Ronald Dawe
“Soldier’s Heart” was coined after the Civil War to describe what is now diagnosed as post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. The authors of Soldier’s Heart are Vietnam veterans who […]
Peace at Home Linked to Success at School
Melissa Sturge-Apple, University of Rochester Which sitcom/movie family is most like your home environment: a) The Cosby Show [Huxtable family] b) Everybody Loves Raymond [Barone family] c) Ordinary People [Jarrett family in […]
Anne Caroline Drake 