My new Fellowship..

I posted about this on Facebook, but because of some stupid algorithm that looks for words sounding like a business, most of my fiends never saw this news. So here it is.. The most important post I have written: I want to officially announce my Fellowship with The Change Maker Initiative, in partnership with LAUMC and Ashoka.  I am in awe of the work I have begun, and its sheer...

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When Anatevka became "Home."

The last musical theater production I was in before Fiddler on the Roof, was back in 2007 with Sonoma State University in A Little Night Music as Ann Eagermann. That role was a lot of fun, and the cast was all very close because most of us were also in drama classes together. After the show closed I had no idea it would be another 10 years before I would do another show. In those 10 years I got married,...

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Hunter and Max

This is Max. Max joined our family a few weeks ago after many many months of researching Service dogs, and programs, and breeds, and rescues. We found max on a Saturday morning, he was the last puppy in his litter and the son of a Golden Retriever who was a service dog at Sacramento Children's Hospital. The family who sold him to us was so happy to hear we planned to train the pup for service,...

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Finding Dory made me cry, and I wasn't expecting why. (SPOILER ALERT)

When you see the trailer for Finding Dory, it plays up a lot of the funny moments in the movie. The lovable characters, the references to finding her home and parents... But what I didn't expect, and what caught me totally off guard were the memories that showed young Dory with her mom and dad.  This was a special needs family! Dory suffers from short term memory loss, which in the first...

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It's never JUST Tourettes..

                                               When someone is diagnosed with Tourettes Syndrome, it very rarely comes as just Tourettes. Tourettes is accompanied by a variation of the following; OCD, Anxiety, ADD, ADHD, Learning Difficulties, Sleeping Problems and Mood regulating...

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A Service Dog for Hunter

Facebook is filled with a lot of useless stuff. I mean..a LOT of useless stuff. Videos and articles that do nothing but take up your time and distract you from life around you, but once and a while there is something really awesome that Facebook shows me. Sometimes it can be life-changing. The article was titled "15 Amazing Things Your Dog Can Sense About You." http://www.dognotebook.com/15-amazing-things-your-dog-can-sense-about-you/ ..and...

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Painting faces..

As fas as I can remember, my mother has been an artist. She has China Painted, sketched, used watercolors, pastels, even zentangle designs. Growing up she would bring her face paints with us every summer to our family reunion at our family's dairy ranch. Our Perazzo family would gather all 42 of us cousins and she would paint all of our faces!! Even some of the adults. It was a memory that defined...

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