Beyond Hope and Back seems like it could be a title of a book.  Maybe it is!  If so it is about the people we see here each day or on facebook each day or even passing by them in the library or at the super market, they are just like you and me except they live with something that many of us dont have to ever live with, they live with having a missing family member, friend, or maybe even a murdered one. 

Over and over again and again they try so very hard to…

Advocating for Change for the Missing in Illinois

Five years ago, when I moved from Missouri to Illinois, I remembered hearing a story about 'a kid visiting Chicago from Kansas City, MO' that went missing. This caught my attention, of course, because this boy was from my home state. I remembered hearing about the missing young man a few times, my husband and I even discussed it. Then we never heard anything again. He was found, I assumed.

Two years ago, in…

So many loved ones go missing, get abducted, bought and sold into human slave underground industries, and sold into human sex trafficking networks.  Many are never found and many that are found become our Homicide Victims and our Doe Cases that continue to be unresolved.

How do we react to…

Its a wonderous thing life is. It's always changing and always evolving, yet in those times of change sometimes we cant move forward with life, life seems to stop us in our tracks.

I dont really remember what year it was that I decided life wasnt going to do that to me any more, but I decided that doing something with life was much better than doing nothing at…

Here is my goal:

Please let me know what you think. I am very specific to point out this is to help…