Regular visitors to this site know that I work as a full-time volunteer for a local domestic violence center and shelter. I serve as a legal advocate, care for groups of preschool to teenage children during their mothers’ DV support groups, configure donated PCs to make them safe and secure for survivors to use in their homes, scan and burn CDs of survivors’ Safety Plan documents, pick up and deliver donated food from a local restaurant to the DV center and shelter, and [more...]

Michelle Major is an artist and a teacher.

A creative type.

And a nurturer. [more...]

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a survivor of domestic violence, so I consider it an honor to work as a full-time volunteer at a domestic violence center and shelter. Along with serving as a legal advocate, I’m happy to help out wherever and whenever I’m needed.

This past Tuesday night, I was helping take care of a group of 12-15 kids of all ages [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that I work as a full-time volunteer at a domestic violence center and shelter, and that one of the many things that I do there is setup and configure old, donated PCs for domestic violence survivors to use in their homes.

I’ve also described how I [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that I’m a domestic violence survivor and I work as a full-time volunteer for a domestic violence center and shelter. If you didn’t know that before now, and you’d like to hear “the rest of the story,” check out my articles, speeches and poems in this site’s DV Information section or click on the red Domestic Violence Journal Topic in the right column of this site’s home page. [more...]