It’s Pride month and it’s time for me to share about the Charlottesville Pride Community Network! But first I wanted to address that LGBTQ phobia is real and it still exists even if the media doesn’t share all the crimes that are happening. Just in recent news, a couple on a subway and two actors…
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May is Foster Care Awareness Month
I make no secret about the part that I grew up in Foster Care. I have been to 2 group homes and one family between the ages of 2 and 16 – with different degrees of emotional trauma that I experienced mostly in the foster family but also outside of it from family and peers….

Jaba – Living Better.Longer.
The other day, a Jaba had their volunteer awards ceremony. It was an honor but also humbling to receive an award for the workshops I co-lead. I think that when you are passionate about something that you are willing to do it for free – at least to some extent anyway. But workshops on how…