For the past eight weeks, I have been working with a great organization called Mending Kids International. Mending Kids brings children from around the world to the Los Angeles area for life saving surgeries. My husband and I have been foster parents to an amazing five year old little girl from Ecuador. Her name is [...]
“All I want for Christmas is a family.” These words are repeated by so many of the foster children who are asked to fill out a wish list at Christmas. What is even more heartbreaking is these children have the same wish every day of the year. You see, these are children who are in [...]
Twenty eight years ago I brought my newborn son home from the hospital. I was afraid and totally unprepared; armed only with two books: my Dr. Spock and “The First Twelve Months of Life”.
It didn’t take long for the first signs to appear. Michael didn’t roll over, crawl, walk or talk [...]
Along with their Christmas gifts, everyone in my family will receive one compact fluorescent bulb this year. And I hope they will make good use of it. I hope it will lead them to replace just one more bulb, and then one more…
If each household in the US replaced just ONE regular [...]
I have a volunteer’s heart.
I want to help.
I want to make it better.
I want you to feel better, to live longer, to smile.
I want to ease a little of your burden so that you can walk with a lighter step.
I don’t even need to know your name.
And I don’t need you to know [...]