Visiting

I went to my old high school yesterday to talk to the current photo students and show them the work I've been doing. It was pretty great. And since I'm just making this, I'll put up some of what I showed them.

Spring Break

Spring Break is almost over. I was in Akron last weekend, so I got to see Sonny, and my grandparents came up on Sunday. I have been sick for almost as long as I can remember, at least three weeks. And last night it started snowing. Sigh.

Taken too long.

Sorry, I don't know why it took so long for me to make this blog!
Anyway here is my most recent story.

Dana Peck, 21, grew up in Athens, Ohio. After losing his father to a truck accident at the age of six, it was only 10 years later that his mother died from cardiac arrest. He spent the next few years in foster care, and struggled with drug and alcohol addiction for a decade. Things began to turn around, however, upon his finding support in Sojourners Care Network, a youth development program based in McArthur, Ohio.

Sojourners has given Peck a house to live in, with five other boys, various jobs, and the opportunity to enroll at Hocking College, where he plans to study chemical dependency counseling and juvenile substance abuse. Dana attends Athens Community Church twice a week and has found a second family in some of the members. His only living relatives are his elderly grandfather and aunt in Albany, Ohio, whom he visits on most weekends.