Swaziland has one of the highest rates of AIDS/HIV in the world. The caregivers there, however, don’t have the common resources that most have to keep themselves safe as they take care of people suffering from HIV/AIDS such as latex gloves. At Urbana 2012, the 16,000 participants spent our evening hearing stories from Swaziland andContinue reading “The process of 16,000 people making 32,000 Caregiver Kits”
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One of the many reasons why I’ll never own a gun
It shouldn’t come as a surprise, but if there is a gun in the home you’re much more likely to experience a violent death in your home, whether homicide or suicide. It doesn’t matter how many guns you own, nor whether or not you have them locked up. Here is the study from 2004 inContinue reading “One of the many reasons why I’ll never own a gun”
Hello, Goodbye. Goodbye, Hello.
For whatever reason I have consistently been able to say goodbye well. This doesn’t make goodbyes easy to do or say for me, but I have been blessed in being able to end relationships and chapters in my life with healthy closure. When you grow up in a community where the population is basically 98%Continue reading “Hello, Goodbye. Goodbye, Hello.”
Stepping Back 