Help Comes

Summertime and the reading listening is easy...

My daughter sent a gift to Grandma, my mother, in the form of an audio book: The Help

My mother was "the help" for several families during her young adult years. 

This work of fiction introduces the reader (or listener) to the 'help' and the 'helped' - the lives of women in Mississippi during the 1960's.

We listened; we chatted; we dozed; we smiled...

Mama shared memories of her experiences as the 'help.' 

Young woman whose mother died when she was little girl, mothered her children and children in other families. 


Young woman whose father died when she was a teen, learned to cook and clean and create.


Young woman learned  to live, love, lean because...

Help comes...

Hope Inside Haiti

In the midst of the devastation in Haiti, hope peeks out in various ways.

My high school classmate and her husband are blessed to own a company in Haiti. They have provided employment opportunities to at least one hundred people over the years. Now they are extending help and hope to employees through the provision of clean water, food, and other assistance.

Another glimpse of hope inside Haiti is the Saint Rock Haiti Foundation which provides free healthcare to the rural community of Saint Rock. As you seek ways in which to offer help and bring hope to Haiti go to the Saint Rock Haiti Foundation website at www.saintrock.org/aboutus.html.

The place of trouble can be a doorway to hope...