Nashville: Sprout Film Festival, Fri., Nov. 1
“We are smart, intelligent, loving people who just want to be treated like everyone else.” ~ Joanie Crowley Crowley, a woman with intellectual disAbilities who attended last year's Spout Film Festival in Nashville, is well aware of the chasm in media in regards to...
Of Miracles, Autism and Surprise Packaging
Have you seen the 31 days (of October) blogosphere campaigns? The take of Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt's Wishing Well blog is "31 Days of Miracles." I've loved this particular series and have opened a little shared...
The Truth About “Obamacare”
A group of nonpartisan East Nashville healthcare advocates, "You're Covered Nashville," decided to share the facts on the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as the much demonized "Obamacare." They've spoken at churches, neighborhood...
Book Review: Leading a Special Needs Ministry
Leading a Special Needs Ministry: A Special Guide to Including Children and Loving Families, Amy Fenton Lee. Guest Post/Book Review by Donna Reagan* Everyone, it seems, loves babies, especially fresh, new ones that can be held, comforted, cuddled and nurtured into...
Love Heals @ Thistle Farms
Nashvillian Becca Stevens is a woman of faith. Not a flowery faith that simply flows from one's lips. But a faith that grew arms and legs and encompassed an unseen sector of our city and then grew and grew and embraced people of all classes and races and even...
“Living For 32” Film @ Belcourt Exposes Ease of Gun Access, Features Va. Tech Survivor
Monday, Sept. 16, 2013--A tired, VERY frustrated same-ol-same-ol ADDENDUM, to yesterday's post. Today's Washington, DC, ship-yard shooting suspect had a Texas concealed weapon permit. WHAT WILL IT TAKE, AMERICA?! Rising from the sad, sad, reality of the...
A Bend in the Journey: Scaling Back on the Blog to Work on Book No.2
I'm not going away. I'm just stepping back from this here. The blog, that is. It's a decision with which I've struggled for at least a year. To stop posting my regular, like clockwork, three-times a week on "The Journey with Grace" so...
