August 2010
August 18th, 2010
Written by Ann Marina in All About Family with 0 Comments
Health and social services agencies in many U.S. Cities offer support programs for single parents, contact local community health centers, and the state or county Department of Health Services, for information on local programs.
The following list is a brief sampling of programs and services available in various cities and states:
Illinois:
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois provides Single...
August 13th, 2010
Written by Rebecca Fortner in Our Daily Walk with 0 Comments
Every year, children start back to school with their new shoes and their Dora the Explorer or Spiderman backpacks full of all kinds of tools for school. However, one of the most important and often overlooked tools that parents sometimes neglect to send with their child is the information that home rules are different then school rules. A positive first impression between the student and teacher...
August 12th, 2010
Written by Wendy Innes in Focus on Health with 0 Comments
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure as the saying goes, and that is never truer than when we are talking about the most common form of cancer in America, skin cancer. While awareness is spreading thanks in large part to the work of the Skin Cancer Foundation, there are still more than 3.5 million new cases diagnosed in 2 million patients each year according to the most recent data...
August 10th, 2010
Written by Christine Orcha... in Stereotypes & Labels with 1 Comment
Growing up in a northern suburb of New York City, walking distance from the train and just a 35-minute ride to Grand Central Station, I never really noticed that my public schools held a mix of children from different races. That is, it was not something that was noteworthy, it just was. Most of the families in my town were working-class, like my own, descendants of immigrants trying to make a...
August 9th, 2010
Written by Rita Cook in The Welcoming Table with 0 Comments
When I first visited France and heard we were going truffle hunting, I mistakenly thought, like many people, about chocolate truffles. Who hasn’t heard of chocolate truffles? In France, that’s blasphemy since everyone knows the French truffle has nothing to do with chocolate, and everything to do with fine dining ala the elusive mushroom. In fact, truffles are a type of subterranean mushroom that...