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I was sexually abused as a child and I have written a book about my experiences. One day over a cup of coffee, I told a friend. The words slipped out of my mouth before I had a chance to …
“In sickness and in sickness.” A quote from Jonathan Safran Foer’s newest novel Here I Am, and one that couldn’t be truer. It’s easy to care when it’s in health, but it’s in sickness and in sickness where those vows …
Proposals by Congress and President-elect to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—including the Medicaid expansion—to turn Medicaid into a block grant, and to cut resources, all can sound very abstract to social workers and policymakers coping with the day-to-day tragedies …
Consumerist messages are all around us: buy, spend, consume. Underpinning these is the powerful message that success in life is defined by your spending power. But it’s more than that; there is a strong message too that we should be …
It’s been a long time since I’ve written, and even longer still since I haven’t waited in eager anticipation for the countdown to midnight on my favorite holiday. New Year’s has always been my favorite holiday. It’s filled with excitement, …
In 2001, graduate assistant Mike McQueary followed Penn State protocol when, after witnessing retired football coach Jerry Sandusky molesting a boy in a locker room shower, he told Coach Joe Paterno and two other superiors what he saw. As a mandated …
Some you win, some you lose is a well-known saying. We can’t realistically expect to succeed in everything we do, so we have to learn to take the rough with the smooth, of course. However, my concern is that life …
President-elect Donald Trump made clear in a recent interview that he plans to deport between two and three million undocumented immigrants, a drastic increase from current practice under which about 235,000 were sent away in 2015. Many of the people being deported …
If Donald Trump had his way, he would not be President of the United States, he would be king. At the end of the Revolutionary War, General George Washington was so admired that many wanted to make him king. Americans …
