About

My name is Brenda and I work for a non profit in NJ.  Literacy Volunteers of NJ has been the best job experience I have ever had.  Turns out it has also offered awesome life experience.  

I started with LVNJ about 3 years ago as an Administrative Assistant.  Part time work three days a week answering phones and doing office type stuff.  I have three kids and a husband with health problems so part-time worked perfectly for me.

I never really understood about adult literacy until working for LVNJ for about a year.  My boss encouraged me to go to tutor training and eventually start tutoring an adult who needed help reading.  From that experience I developed a passion for health literacy, adult literacy and family literacy, and this blog has been following my journey.

At first my posts were all about my tutoring experience, trying to put on paper the transformation that happens to someone when tutoring an adult.  Since then it has become more big picture, as I find myself wanting to write about the epidemic of adult illiteracy throughout the world.

I am in school now too.  I think trying to teach someone to read opened up a never before tapped energy and desire, to teach.  I had gone to college and earned a few credits, but never really had a passion.  So I enrolled in and online program and have been working toward a teaching degree since October 2011.

My life revolves around my family, my three girls Maddie, Katy and Ally and my husband Tom.  I know I sound just like every other blog mom out there, but they inspire me every day.  For the past six years I have been devoting much of my time to helping out at my kids' school, serving on the board of trustees.

I am reaching a new chapter in my life, it is right around the corner, just a few pages away and I am not sure what it will include, but I know teaching and helping others will always be a part of it.