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I’m blogging from my hotel room in New Mexico. I used be in bed my alarm will be going off early since I am speaking early in the morning from 8am-9:15am.It was quiet an adventure getting to New Mexico. My flight to Denver was good but I was running to catch my next flight since […]

I write this as I prepare to leave in the morning on an 11am flight to New Mexico. My flight will first take me to Denver, CO where I will get on a connecting flight to Farmington, New Mexico. I will be speaking at the community event called Take Back the Night. I have spoken […]

April is a month that means a great deal to me because it is child abuse awareness month and also the month in which my sister and I broke our silence at the Children Advocacy Center 11 yrs. ago. Since April is child abuse awareness month I think I need to emphasis my purpose in […]

I got thinking while reading over my manuscript of my second book to make my blog a little more interactive by getting the thoughts of others. What sparked this thought was wondering what others thought of confronting the ones that abused them or in the professional field what professionals think of clients who want to […]

If you have been following my blog you may remember back in October when I talked about an interview I did with my local paper the “Daily Herald.” An article that was suppose to come out that month took five months and ended up not in the paper but the town magazine. There was debate […]

Lately I feel as if there is not enough time in the day to get things accomplished. The day just slips away and I always try to be in bed no later then ten thirty because working with high school students can be a physical workout on my brain. Being a social work intern three […]

For the past four years I have received letters from survivors, parents, people working in the field of child abuse, family members of survivors, high school and college students who were told to read my book for class or were doing a research paper and used my book as a reference. There are those who […]

Happy Hallmark Holiday! I really do not believe Valentines Day would exist if Hallmark did not exist. Why do we have to have a day on the calendar to celebrate a way to express love to significant others. Why can’t that be every day? With Valentines day you are pretty much expected to buy your […]

Just wanted to leave a quick note to Thank everyone for the nice thoughts on facebook, emails, text messages, and phone calls wishing me a happy 24th birthday. It was a great day! I am super tired and will update my blog in the morning. Thanks again! I will leave you with the image of […]

You start to learn a lot about the publishing industry when your an author. I consider myself so lucky to have found such an amazing publishing company who made the decisionto share my life story and mission with the world when they could have easily looked the other way and said, “not what we are […]