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Be My Champion

Have I told you about Champions? If I haven’t then I’m sorry, because Champions is AWESOME!

Champions Recovery Alternatives, Inc is an organization in Hanford, California which is there to help people put their lives back in order.

That means helping those recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, the homeless, abused women, kids being taken into foster care and pretty much anyone else we can.

I’ve been involved with Champions through the board of directors for six years now and am incredibly...

I Need Your Help!

Later today, I’m going to need your help.

You’ll need a twitter account, so if you don’t have one, PLEASE go to twitter.com and sign up now.

Your help will be needed starting at 12pm PST on January 7th, 2013.

PLEASE.

It’s not just for me, it’s for lots of peopleincludinghomeless, abused women and children!

Check back here a little later for more details.

One Word at a Time Blog Carnival Words for 2013

Hear ye, hear ye… put your suggestions in here.

Ok… So I am SO disorganized at the moment that I completely forgot to open up the call for new words for the carnival.

We have NO words lined up for 2013 just yet so for next week (Tuesday the 8th January) I’m going to make the word: Honor.

After that, I’m open to suggestions.

The carnival is something that I really love because it 1) shows thewondrousvariety of people and personalities that God created by showing what THEY think of when they read a...

2012 – My Year in Review

2012 was a fantastic year for me, all told. I just wish i could convince my head of that!

I intended this time last year, to write a post describing the high points and low points of my year. It is probably a good indicator of how my 2011 ended that I never got around to writing that post, although I really wanted to.

2011 was a standout year for me for a few reasons:

My company sponsored a conference for the first time
I had the honor of speaking at a couple of conferences, which was the first t...

Due – Blog Carnival

MERRY CHRISTMAS…

Welcome to the One Word At A Time Blog Carnival – this week’s word is: Due.

Seriously though, who schedules a blog carnival for Christmas day?.. oh, wait… that was me…. and yes, I DID forget all about it. SORRY!

Below this, you’ll find a little widget called Simply Linked. All the participants in the carnival add their links to the widget and that way we can all find and read everyone’s entries. You’re welcome to join us, the carnival is open to anyone.

To see all of the upcoming...

The Kiss of Death

I’m starting a new series today because of something that weighs heavily on my heart.

I am fortunate enough to get to work with an organization which helps people whose lives have become lost in drugs, alcohol and abuse.

Drugs, alcohol, abusive home situations, prostitution, homelessness, gangs and living in fear of violent crime are all menaces which are way to prevalent in our society – and they’re things which way too many of us don’t understand.

I find that it’s very easy, even for Christian...