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A Year After: Remembering Elisha Henson

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When my kids were younger, I often sang to them to put them to sleep. I am not a fan of most lullabies (babies falling out of cradles? Really?), so the songs I usually sang to them were worship songs and/or R&B or pop songs. Often the lyrics had to be modified a bit, but …

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“Who Really Cares About All of This?” I Do.

#IPV, #WalkInIssysShoes, advocacy, autism, autistic, child abuse, endVAWHIV, filicide, Issy Stapleton, Kelli Stapleton / By

“Who Really Cares About All This?” I Do. She didn’t mean any harm, this nice woman who is the parent of one of my children’s classmates. I’d contacted her to respond to (yet another) query asking several parents to consider volunteering at a particular time of day.  I gently explained that while I was happy …

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