I spend most of my day prowling the Internet for organizations that work with people who were sexually abused, especially as children. I contact as many as I can to see if they would be willing to start a Lamplighter chapter in their area. Our Lamplighter movement currently has 68…
Like most people who follow the news I’ve been reading about the rapes in the Congo that have been going on since 1998, stories of such horror that it dwarfs any other brutal stories I’ve ever read. Old women, young women, children, no one escaped the tentacles of rape. I’ve…
Tammie, my second oldest daughter, called me today from The Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. She was there with a group of other parents who are in training to take exchange students, her third year of doing it. We were on the phone for more than an hour. I’ve never…
When I was in recovery I labeled my memories as either AM or PM or in my case, PM, for pre-molestation and AM, for after molestation. Since my sexual abuse began when my father raped me in my early teens I had a lot of PM memories to draw on….
The Lamplighters, an international movement for recovery from incest and childhood sexual abuse, currently have six chapters in Africa; two in Nigeria, one in Sudan, one in Kenya and one in Tunisia. We have two more getting ready to start up in the near future. They are both in Nigeria;…
