Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Sadness

I work in a building that offers many services including unemployment, WIC (food for women, infants and children), unemployment, jobs and training, emergency assistance, help with heating bills, low income legal advice, and mental health services. In the women's restrooms, someone put up fliers offering day and evening sessions for victims of domestic abuse. At the bottom of the flier are tear-off phone numbers where you can call to sign up for the sessions. Every day I see more and more phone numbers are torn off these fliers. That makes me really sad.

Galena

My host here in Dubuque told me to check out Galena, Illinois. So this morning I drove 30 minutes and parked at the Ulysses Grant house. A t...