Jillian Wallace is a bright ten-year-old girl whose outlook on life is quite different from others. At age three, she was diagnosed with A.D.H.D, O.D.D, and Aspergers Syndrome (A.S.), making her functioning at a much younger age.
How do we explain this complex, gifted child to you? She loves to color, mainly in coloring books. But [...]
Meet guest poster Chris Rathje. I love his spirit!
I have heard the phrase “whether you believe you can do something or not you are right” for several years now but I have realized it’s full power relative recently.
Our thoughts control our lives and thoughts are nothing more then words and images. Simple [...]
If you and your spouse or partner are in business together, you gotta take time to read Hal Alpiar’s blog on how to make the relationship work. And how not to. Example:
Bedtime in the bedroom is simply not the right time or the right place to talk about sales, distribution, taxes, accounts payable, collections, irate [...]
Meet 19-month-old Luke Smolinski and his special family: Daddy Steve, Mommy Jackie, brother Alex and sister Lily. At first glance, Luke looks like a normal little boy learning to walk and playing with toys. But for the last year, Luke has been fighting a monster, and that monster is called The Seizure Monster.
Since [...]
A team of individuals that includes Scott Moody, a member of the Epilepsy Foundation Kentuckiana’s Board of Directors, along with five men and one woman, including videographer, David Kiern, who will be filming their journey during the 18-day trip to Mt. Everest Base Camp starting October 4th.
At nearly 18,000 feet in altitude, Everest Base Camp [...]
I’ve been doing research on social networking in terms of its value to people in business, and after over a month of digging into it, can say that it may be very valuable to you.
I’ll be addressing this in my next Communication Expressway ezine, and also in Webgrammar’s Food for Thought.
Times are changing rapidly, and [...]
Note from Judy: I thought it would be fun to share some of the stories of families who have 4 Paws for Ability service dogs that have affected their lives. Here’s one about a brother and sister who use a service dog:
September 9, 2008. WOW, it has been almost 9 months since bringing Brock home [...]
Over the past five years, 200,000 civilians have died due to violence, malnutrition, and disease in Darfur and an additional 2.2 million people have been displaced. We want to do something about it.
Fed up with watching humanitarian crises on the evening news and not doing anything to help, a group of bloggers (most notably, Leo [...]
Karen Shirk, executive director of 4 Paws for Ability in Xenia, Ohio, her dog trainers, and three newly trained autism service dogs, were blocked from their flight to New Zealand. Three families who had raised the needed funds were waiting breathlessly for the group from the agency to arrive.
Because of a mix-up and lack of [...]
