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Wrapping Up With MVC
“He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.” ― St. Ignatius of Loyola My year with Mercy...


The Last Lesson I Learned From Jean Vanier
This morning I woke up to the news that Jean Vanier had died. If you don’t know who Jean Vanier was, you should. He was a French...


Learning to Receive
I like to write. I'm pretty much always writing: poems, journal entries, scraps of things that never make it past my own eyes or linger...


Reflections on Habitat, Affordable Housing, and Volunteering
Some of you might remember (or my new friends are finding out right now) that several years back I went to Anchorage, Alaska in the...


Home Visits, Thanksgiving, and Giving Tuesday
It has been a little over three months of my life in Cincinnati. Some parts have been hard and some parts have been very easy. I've found...


Week 10: What Exactly Do You Do?
I often get asked this question: what exactly do you do for your work? So the purpose of this blog will be to walk you through a typical...


Week 6: Living Simply
One of the tenets of Mercy Volunteer Corps, of which I am a part, is living simply. I'm sure some of you are at least curious about what...


Week 4: Ms. Roxanne
Part of my job description includes assisting with home deliveries of groceries to the elderly poor in our neighborhood who are sick or...


Week 1: California to Ohio
For those of you who have no idea (is there even such a person by this point??) I've moved to Cincinnati. I will be here for at least a...


The Mistake, the Lesson, and the Blessing
I haven't written in a long time. I finally published my poetry book, which took months of hard work. I started looking for a new job and...
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