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Posts By Harriet Boorhem
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
I’ve been hesitant to add to the rhetoric about the Penn State sex abuse scandal. However, I would be remiss in my...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
What is your elevator speech? Promise House has struggled with this for years. How do we say what we do in a...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
Note: To provide some context for what follows: Ms. Boorhem is writing about her belief that the U.S. Department of Housing and...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
It’s awesome and a bit scary to see your children speak out on issues about which they are passionate. I have two...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
So, here’s a funny. Over the weekend, I was called at 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning to help the overnight shelter staff find...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
So, Texas is going on 20 days of 100 degree or hotter weather. I think the heat has wilted not only my...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
Entry 12: Looking Back on a Decade I have been President of Promise House for ten years this month and with the...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
Entry 11: Monday Sucks! So far, Monday sucks. I just had to tell my Parents with Promise staff that Congress, in all...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
Entry 10: Inspiration Amidst the Gloom and Doom Amidst all the tribulations of budget cuts, program cuts, outrageous bills being passed, and...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
Entries 8 and 9: Stressors and Storytelling March 31 So……I’m sitting at my desk today and see two police cars in front...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
Entry 6 and Entry 7: Springing into a Slump Because a few blogs in row were time sensitive, we had to bump...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Diarist
I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but at least y’all will listen to my rant about the slicing, dicing legislatures...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Diarist
Well, here I sit at home once again as Mother Nature blows sleet and snow all over this totally unprepared city. Dallas...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Diarist
As all of you know, the Super Bowl is coming to Dallas. Well here’s a side to it that you never hear...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Diarist
Happy New Year, Everyone! During the holidays, I came up with a small list of resolutions our government should make in 2011...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Diarist
I’ve been partying so heartily this month that I completely forgot about blogging. But last Wednesday, as we were decorating the Promise...
