Times are a Changin'

I'm rethinking this here blog. Up to this point it has been a collection of stories and pictures about my life. I understand that people from friends to strangers to coworkers to my family read this thing, and I appreciate it. I did a little experiment -- figuring out how many people actually land on this page. Dear friends, it's astounding the readership this thing has. (Although most of you are admittedly blog stalkers who never comment.) The funny thing is people actually tell me that they read it in person, all the time. Even people I don't know.

Of course, I know that my highest readership was about 18 months ago from South Africa. You people were relentless about watching for the moment I posted during those 21 days -- know what that tells me? You people care about people. Me too. I especially care about kids. Not just my own but kids around the world. Lots of them are hurting.

When I am honest with myself I am in a flux between thinking that the problems that kids around the world face (orphans, poverty, slavery) are too big to ever change and having terrific insight into the power of small interactions changing the world.

There are things you can do to change the world for kids. There are things that you can do for your own kids, kids in the grocery store, kids who are your neighbors, kids that have no parents, kids that live on the other side of the world. I'd like to point those out. I'd like for you to read about the stuff I really care about. If you are a parent, a grandparent, an aunt or uncle, a kid lover or if you are scared of kids -- this is stuff you'll want to be aware of.

So, I'm going underground for a bit. Gathering information and stories. I'm going to use my own experiences as a parent and as a kid professional to show how easy it is and how painful it is to change the world for kids.

Stay tuned ...