Category Archives: Juvie Wonders

Is it just me? I wouldn’t call myself the biggest football fan by any means.  In the same breath, I hang in there like a trooper throughout the entirety of the football season.  I accept the fact that we subscribe … Continue reading →

Unplug a Toilet Plunger! …. Is my latest Google search to share with you.  Youth transport today!!  We had to return briefly to the treatment facility to retrieve this youth’s clothes and personal belongings.  As I was sitting in the … Continue reading →

Husband D. and I were having coffee this evening downtown.  We were playing Rummy and earlier he had made me quite upset (a small foot-stamping) by instituting a rule that runs of Kings, Aces and Twos do not count.   Who … Continue reading →

On my “Friday” at Juvie, we ended the week this way:  (Of course, Mary and Joseph are pseudonyms.  Of course.)  In the Isolation Cells, Joseph’s toilet will not flush and he is begging staff to re-set his toilet.  At first … Continue reading →

(Dickinson)   There are two things that I’m grappling with right now (as in, this very moment.)  Make that three.  My husband just pulled into the driveway and I got nothin’ for dinner – no ideas / no inspiration / … Continue reading →

  I was reading Miss Amy’s (Southern America)  blog this evening and was struck by something she had said – something about her purpose during her trip being to hold and love little girls that other people had turned their backs … Continue reading →

So this is what I don’t understand.  Well, I do.  I just don’t like it and it wears me out.   Everyday I go to work.  Everyday at work the kids are on a point system.  Everyday the kids know … Continue reading →

We’ve lost our littlest boys at Juvie.  Meaning, they went to court and the judge generously released them.  Well.  They had spent many, many days there for only being ten years old.  As one of them was in the process of … Continue reading →

Life at juvie is very cyclic.  Well.  I guess life anywhere is prone to cycles.  We definitely have our ups and downs, though.  Last night one of our kids dropped several levels (the higher the level, the more privileges.  They’re … Continue reading →