Trauma-Informed Care: An Introduction for Libraries  starts October 13! Sign up by September 29 for a 10% discount. I'm happy to annou...

  M arch 1st of every year is observed as the Disability Day of Mourning to remember disabled victims of filicide–disabled people murdered b...

 WE GOT A NEW KITTEN This is Hacksaw. Stubbins (19) and Larry (11) are still around; Caleb and I just figured it was good timing. Caleb has ...

 A few weeks ago, Adriane Herrick Juarez at the Library Leadership Podcast reached out to me to be a guest on the show and talk about traum...

 A couple weeks ago I got an email from my landlord with no context (just "please see attached" and a generically-named attachment...

UPDATE 9/25/2020: The class is now full! Here goes nothing... Trauma-Informed Care: An Introduction for Libraries, Oct 5-Nov 15 through UW-M...

A few weeks ago, Emporia State put out a call to people who were going to present at the Oregon Library Association's annual conference ...

There's been something I've been thinking about a lot lately but haven't really had the energy to talk about it in any comprehen...

I just finished up my first run of my Trauma-Informed Care: An Introduction for Libraries course. I hope to run it again next year, but s...

As long-time readers may recall, I've been interested in and studying topics related to trauma since I first learned about the Adverse C...

Back in April of last year, I was one of 17 participants selected as part of a community cohort to be trained by Trauma-Informed Oregon on t...

My best laid plans the past few years have always seemed to hit snags. For instance: this is my first real blogpost since my blog address ch...

“When one is engaged in suffering, there is so much more to it than keeping it all together” . This is a quote from Laura van Dernoot Li...

Comedian Maria Bamford, looking stern. Text says: "If you stay alive for no other reason at all, please do it for spite." ...

A Venn Diagram that intersects social sustainability with environmental and economic sustainability. A situation can be viable, but if ...

In my last post , I came to the conclusion that one foundation of self-care is creating and maintaining healthy boundaries in working relat...

“I’ll be what you want until I can’t be that anymore.” A person in a sparkly green jacket. Text reads, "Tell me what you want....

Well everyone, I've had quite a year! As I was thinking about a reflections post, my thoughts ended up at a resolutions post; and whil...

A nna Donaldson is a Departmental Analyst with the State of Michigan Division of Continuous Quality Improvement (DCQI) which monitors...