Movies & Television

I have been struggling all morning to write this post. I started off the day quite early, preparing for a live segment on our local Fox News about our upcoming conference. For awhile this morning the videotape wasn't working correctly, resulting in a flurry of emails and phone calls about that. It appears to be working now. After the TV spot, I rushed home to prepare for a scheduled radio interview over the phone. For some reason that didn’t happen this morning. But in the meantime, I received an email from a Juvenile Justice worker who has a 20 year old incarcerated female who needs a “mentor”. Apparently this young lady is a Russian adoptee whose (adoptive) family has bailed and when… [more]

Tonight’s Without a Trace episode was a repeat, but one I had not seen before. In case you haven’t watched that series before, it is about a person who disappears and the Missing Persons caseworkers who solve the disappearance. Tonight’s disappearing person was a social worker. He “went missing” a few days before he was due to quit his job. They find him alive, and he had “disappeared” because he was helping a pregnant mom evade the authorities—other state social workers like him—so that her newborn baby would not be removed from her at birth, for “predictive neglect.” Her two year old son had been removed from her and placed in a foster home, where he was killed by a twelve year old… [more]

In this post I mentioned how PTSD was rampant in returning Iraq vets. It came as no surprise to me that in this millennium, even after all that has been learned about this disorder, our brave guys and gals are still not getting the mental health services they need. My husband and I watched Flags of Our Fathers last night on Pay-per-view television. This movie was directed by Clint Eastwood and told the story of the soldiers who fought on Iwo Jima in 1945. Specifically, it was the story of the marines who raised the flag and who were immortalized in the famous photograph depicting that historic event. My husband and daughter are major history buffs, but I am not. I found… [more]

I didn’t write anything yesterday because I am having a terrible time shaking this cold or flu or whatever it is that I brought back from Colorado. And now to add insult to injury, my back is out of whack and I can’t stand up straight. And my chiropractor is closed today. Getting old is the PITS! At least I am not caring for attachment-affected children while I am sick … there is much to be thankful about that fact. In a later post, I will talk about how Mama being sick shakes the already shaky foundation our kids are trying to build, and how rather than Mama getting empathy and pampering, she gets more grief than ever when she’s sick. Sound familiar? A… [more]