There are many bad driving habits you can pick up as soon as the learner plates come off. However, some will actually cause terrible damage to your car. Here are a few examples. CC0 Licensed Image Courtesy of Pexels Driving Too Fast Over Speed Bumps In countries like the UK, speed bumps and potholes are…
Category: Awareness
Mason’s Toy Box
Mason’s Toy Box started when a young man named Mason, lost his battle to rare childhood cancer in 2011. The truth is that not all children will be home for the holiday season, as my family as experienced in 2008 as my son was fighting for his life after his liver transplant. Parents will choose…
Joey Bevins – Rocking for Recovery
Hi, I’m Joey Bevins and I am a person in recovery from substance use disorder. My clean date is 10/5/3015 and I haven’t found it necessary to have a drink or drug since that day over four years ago. I was at a real all-time low before getting clean. Everyone that ever cared about me…
How you can support the Cause for equality
Today I am sharing about the how you can support the cause for equality via the NAACP. When I started The Rebels Den, part of the mission was to highlight non-profits and bring awareness to different causes, injustices and what we can do about it. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is America’s legal…
Protests lead to change
This past week in our home, we’ve been having conversations how protests lead to change and some of it didn’t always feel good. I limited my social media because I wanted to take the time to listen and learn and reflect and when I did sign up – every single time when someone talked about…
You can’t walk around with blinders on
You can’t walk around with blinders on and ignore the fact that Black People have been discriminated against since forever. It is time that we truly listen to their experiences and become active in our anti-racism work. We’ve been having the hard uncomfortable yet necessary conversations in our home … checking our bias and the…
Music is healing when you have PTSD
There’s no question that music is healing and incredibly powerful. It can and often does express what you’re feeling when you are finding it difficult to say it with your own words. I recently learned about Guitar’s 4 Vets – an organization whose “mission to share the healing power of music by providing free guitar…
1st Annual Rocking for Recovery Event
I recently had a brief chat about being involved with the 1st Annual Rocking for Recovery Event. While we haven’t quite hashed out the details just yet, I thought I would share a snippet of my story and then tell you about the event! My father was an alcoholic. He knew it but didn’t care…
Draw Buckets
This past week or two I came across DRAW – a non-profit that was founded on the premise that a single event of a natural disaster can bring a person to instant rock bottom. How many times have you watched the news to see a community be drowning in the waters from the rains of…
Rise Above + SAVE at Exit 111
When I attended Exit 111 back in October, one thing was incredibly clear: Rise Above + SAVE – a suicide prevention message that needs addressing perhaps now more than ever. I’m a fan of people using their platform for what they believe in – we may not always agree – but we all have a…
October is Liver Awareness Month
October is Liver Awareness Month and it affects our life every single day as my son was born with a rare genetic disorder and lives with a donated liver by someone who believes in the gift of life. Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I deficiency (CPSID) is a rare inherited disorder characterized by complete or partial lack of the…
Chugfest at Ix Art Park in Charlottesville
The first Annual CHUGFEST is happening at IX Art Park on Sunday, October 20th from 1-8 PM! And while I normally feature non-profits, this still falls under the category of what I am trying to highlight on the blog. So what exactly is CHUGFEST? This is an all-day rock, punk and metal event featuring a lineup…