Thank you for the wonderful, overwhelming outpouring of support over the past few weeks. Since posting my announcement, I’ve received so many emails from people who participated in the hospital programs and colleagues who were impacted by them— offering...
It was a chilly day but when I saw my dear friend, April Harris, smiling at me from inside Building 62, home to many Wounded Warriors and their families, I felt warmth. I returned April’s smile, told her how happy I was to see her and basked in the radiance of...
In 2010 I answered an ad for a job at the Walter Reed MWR Arts & Crafts Center on the Forest Glen Annex. In the nine years since, I’ve moved through changes in location and contracts and leadership and employment and job title, expanding the...
In 2016, Staff Sergeant (SSG) Charles Stokes, after losing a custody battle and death of his grandfather, struggled to find purpose/motivation. He described his depression as so extreme that he slept 18 hours each day and still found it challenging to get up in the...
As 2018 comes to a close, we’d like to take the opportunity to thank each and every person who has been a part of making this year full of art and writing and laughter and community. “True Community” as defined by M. Scott Peck, “emerges as the...
I am an artist. I am an artist. I am an artist. I am an artist. It was so very challenging to form those words in my head…my fingers felt like they were dredging through quicksand just to make contact with my laptop’s keys…but there it is. I am an artist. I write...
