Tag: family
member name: Linda M.
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January 28, 2007 02:54 PM EST --
Last Thursday I attended the class for the third time. My sixteen-year-old son is still hanging in there, listening attentively. I'm impressed.
This time we finished the anatomy lectures and listened . . .
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April 02, 2007 02:35 AM EDT --
A Southern California mother, Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick, filed a lawsuit against Child Protective Services (CPS). She claimed caseworkers had unjustly taken her children in February 2000. The children were . . .
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February 14, 2007 01:35 AM EST --
I'm hoping to move away from my home in the mountains. This may surprise some of you who saw my recent article, Five Things I Love About My Home. Though it's true I love my home and have enjoyed . . .
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March 04, 2007 03:24 AM EST --
I've been doing intuitive healing for years, though not regularly. In the last year I've decided to study a variety of healing methods with the goal of having a healing practice in place before . . .
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January 24, 2007 03:03 AM EST --
Tonight I went to the second EMT-B class session at the local fire hall.
Over the weekend I told my son (age sixteen) to decide whether or not he wanted to continue the class, then to approach me as an . . .
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March 09, 2007 06:04 AM EST --
“After ecstasy, the laundry.” - Zen Proverb
I should have known from the beginning that laundry would be a big issue in my life. My grandparents owned a dry cleaning store in East Oakland, . . .
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March 14, 2007 08:05 PM EDT --
Are you a woman living with a man who batters you? Do you know one? I know it happens to men too, but the issues aren't exactly the same because of the physical strength factor. A woman living with . . .
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February 11, 2007 03:24 PM EST --
A sixteen year old boy in foster care, John G., wanted to travel to Washington DC to testify before Congress because CPS is taking away his Social Security money. But now he's decided not to go because . . .
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January 25, 2007 12:59 PM EST --
Al Capone Does My Shirts was chosen as a Newbery Honor Book in 2005, and also won many other awards. The author, Gennifer Choldenko, was especially pleased to win the Schneider Family Book Award which . . .
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March 01, 2007 06:40 AM EST --
Yesterday we had snow fort building weather. My son took advantage. I see that over the years his fort building methods have evolved. He's now using an old wooden box to make snow bricks, and stacking . . .
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February 08, 2007 03:48 AM EST --
If you're a parent living in the USA with young children, and if you don't know what the Fourth Amendment is, please pay attention. This information could save your family.
The Fourth Amendment . . .
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February 10, 2007 01:29 PM EST --
Alan L. Schwartz was a CPS investigator who worked for many years with families on an Indian reservation. His experiences led him to write Protecting Children From Child Protective Services (2004) when . . .
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January 20, 2007 05:53 AM EST --
I'm now enrolled in the local EMT-B class, which trains Emergency Medical Technicians for Basic Life Support (BLS) in the Klamath River Valley. This is my second time to take the class. EMT-Bs must . . .
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March 18, 2007 03:48 AM EDT --
A Georgia child welfare administrator for the Department of Children and Family Services (DFCS) has been arrested for felony child cruelty according to news reports. The accused woman, Cylenthia Clark, . . .
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February 20, 2007 03:00 AM EST --
“The greater our love, the deeper will be its influence on society.”
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March 18, 2007 04:01 PM EDT --
This morning I opened one of my Google news alerts on the topic, “foster parents,” and found only two articles listed. Both are about men accused of taking advantage of the foster care system . . .
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March 02, 2007 01:24 AM EST --
Morning notes:
I got up today and turned on the hot water heater. I know that must sound strange to those of you who live in civilization, as well as lots of people out here in the sticks. The . . .
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January 24, 2007 03:21 PM EST --
I was born in 1952 in Oakland, California at the corner of McArthur and Broadway - in the old wing of the Kaiser hospital there. My childhood was spent in El Cerrito and El Sobrante, in the northern part . . .
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February 08, 2007 02:03 PM EST --
Find out what happened to CPS caseworker Gary Sanderson and CPS Director Jill McVey after Daddy Justice Films interviewed them. According to the baby's mother, Sanderson stole her baby, rudely throwing . . .
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February 23, 2007 10:59 PM EST --
Snap Decision, a movie based on a true story, was released in 2001. Tonight I saw it for the first time on DVD. It was about a widowed mother of three, Jen, whose best friend, Carrie, arrived for an overnight . . .
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