Youth and teen services personnel are some of the hardest-working people I know. We go into this profession knowing that we’re going to be working for relatively low pay with regards to our education, and unfortunately extremely low recognition among our peers in other avenues. With the stereotype of being THE pink “collar” of a […]
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Closer To Where You Want To Be
We get comfortable in life. It starts out that everything is awesome. Work is wonderful, home life is wonderful, house/apartment is wonderful, everything is awesome. Then a few years pass, and everything is great. Work is great, but wonderful but great. Or home life is great. Could be wonderful, but it’s great. Then, everything […]
Let Whatever You Do Today Be Enough
There are some days when, no matter what I do, it never seems to be enough. I end up disappointing tweens and teens (and that seems like all the time as they are a notoriously fickle bunch), or I can’t juggle everything that needs to be done in a day, or I can’t seem to […]
Audacity to Believe
In this week, when we still have riots and need the National Guard in Ferguson, when journalists are beheaded across the sea, and everything seems lost, I take hope in these words. I have to have faith in these words. I have to have the audacity to believe. For if I don’t, how can […]