Tiffany Raiford

I say quite often that it’s typically the smallest acts of kindness that make the biggest impact. It’s the smile when you’re having a bad day. It’s a compliment when you’re feeling less than accomplished. It’s the sweet gesture that required some thought and action on the part of someone else that can always make […] More

Education is the most important gift you can ever provide yourself. Learning is not something that we are forced to do for reasons unknown. We might not see it that way as children since we’d likely much rather be doing anything else – playing, sleeping, eating… As adults, however, it’s much easier to see why […] More

It’s like I say to my husband all the time, some of the best things in life are free. He then makes some offhand comment about how he will remember that the next time he’s going to get me something inside a little blue box and he’ll draw me a picture instead – he’s so […] More

Social workers are often painted in a bad light. It’s these people who work tireless hours protecting children from people who are hurting them. Sure, sometimes a child slips through the cracks or a parent who loves their kids unconditionally loses a child because of one incident of poor judgment; social workers are not perfect. […] More