“It sounds daunting but it's not,” says Lines for Life volunteer Scott Shoen as he reflects on what it’s like to answer crisis calls. “Every tool you need to do this job, they give you in training.” And Scott should know—he’s been volunteering for five … [Read more...]
Angels, their sons and daughters
Angela Jiminez’s aunt Priscilla killed herself when she was 24. She’d gotten pregnant in her junior of high school, and her family sent her to a convent, essentially to seclude her, hide her. They gave her child up for adoption. No one explained this in … [Read more...]
Accepting the new normal
I was asked to write something, the more personal the better, about what I believe to be helpful in talking with or working with veterans. To be honest, I don’t have a clue. I speak regularly in the Portland Public School system about my military service … [Read more...]