I’ve been sharing some of the stories of our trip to S.E. Asia. If you haven’t read them I hope you will. I’ve written about how sex trafficking is defined, and how the Exodus Road has started an alliance to coordinate the efforts of anti-trafficking teams across the globe. I’ve talked about how commonplace indentured […]
Category: Me Time
As a result, dinner prep is usually a chaotic affair. Here’s how it usually goes: 5pm: Feel hungry. Think about making dinner.5:15pm Kids complain about hunger. Think about making dinner.5:30pm Resolve to make dinner.5:35 Check fridge. Realize I have 2 pita pockets, leftover brown rice, and a packet of carrots.5:40 Call Mark and ask him […]
All I Want For My 40th Birthday Is To Raise $4,000 | Cam BowmanSo this is why I want you to help me raise $4000 for my 40th. Four thousand dollars would do so much good for this organization. It would give them equipment to help their surveillance teams, tables and chairs to work on, […]
Two weeks ago a crowd of angry protesters faced off with border patrol agents in Murrieta, California, where the city’s mayor and residents blocked buses carrying immigrant children who were going to be processed there. Some saw anti-immigration protestors as patriots bravely standing up against a failed federal government. But when I went to the […]
This week the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby’s right to deny coverage of birth control methods they deem to be “abortifacients,” and it seems like the whole internet exploded in outrage. My facebook and twitter feed were lit up with rants about women’s rights and boycotts and religious tyranny. And I get […]
Kahil Gibran once suggested that joy and sorrow are inseparable. They arrive together, he wrote. "When one sits alone with you … remember that the other is asleep upon your bed." I get it, man. You’re describing what summertime is to me. Growing up, summer was the best thing in the world, and I love […]
[photo by Jamie Wright] This is the only way to fight sexual trafficking. To walk into the shadows. To go face-to-face with the traffickers . . . to gather evidence and to partner with police and to prosecute in court. While rescue is a part of the job. Matt Parker explained that the real goal […]
[photo by Jamie Wright] This is the only way to fight sexual trafficking. To walk into the shadows. To go face-to-face with the traffickers . . . to gather evidence and to partner with police and to prosecute in court. While rescue is a part of the job. Matt Parker explained that the real goal […]
An interesting dilemma came up today. India has kept a diary for much of the last year, and usually shares it with me. But today, she let me know that I’m not allowed to read it. And while I’m fine with that, since I suspect her current rants involve how annoying her brothers are and […]
10 Tricks To Appear Smart During Meetings | MediumWhenever someone gets up from the table and walks around, don’t you immediately respect them? I know I do. It takes a lot of guts but once you do it, you immediately appear smart. Fold your arms. Walk around. Go to the corner and lean against the […]
Investigations are at the heart of what Exodus Road does. It is the way they help both rescue victims of sexual trafficking as well as prosecute the people who are trafficking women and children. But through the Liberty Alliance formed by Matt Parker, Exodus Road’s founder, the organization is also able to help children with […]
Every once and I while I will post a picture on instagram that will cause someone to ask, “How do you get your kids to do that?” How do you get your kids to play chess?How do you get your kids to do yoga?How do you get your kids to watch that show? Well, today […]