Emily Parke Chase
This has been a busy Spring! A rush of speaking engagements, among others, included presenting a workshop at the Pennsylvania Adolescent Sexual Health Conference: Everyone Counts. My session focused on encouraging the people to include parents in the conversation about adolescent sexual health. Eight-eight percent of sexually active teens say that it would have been …
Read More Speaking, Writing UpdateHappy New Year! We’ve just said goodbye to all our grandkids who were visiting from out of state. How they have grown and changed over the past year! Some have learned to read. Younger ones are now potty-trained. Others are taller. It is easy to see how they have matured. Do you ever wonder how …
Read More Setting Goals for the New Year!The grocery store shelves were empty earlier this week. Hurricane Sandy was on its way into our region and local residents had cleared the shelves of emergency items like milk, bread, and bottled water. At places like Home Depot and Lowes demands for sump pumps, generators and batteries outstripped the supply. The newspaper reported …
Read More “Eye of the Storm”My half-hour radio interview on Atlanta radio is now available on-line here. –Emily
Read More Radio interview now availableLast week our local writers’ group gathered for their monthly critique session. To warm up our skills before the critique, our leader gave us a brief writing exercise, challenging us to take a common word associated with the Fall season (cider, cornstalk, pumpkins, etc) and place it in an unusual context. My assigned word was …
Read More Autumn BlessingsJust a quick note here to say that you can hear me being interviewed for a radio program with Dottie Coffman tomorrow, Tuesday Oct. 9. Details are at http://wimoradio.com/wordpress/the-dottie-coffman-show. Feel free to call in and offer a comment!
Read More Quickie News Item!Did God order a heavenly dove down to my college dormitory room years ago to tell me that one day I would be speaking to thousands of hormonal teenagers about dating and marriage? No. If he had, I might have whooshed that birdie out the window and slammed the sash down on its tail feathers. …
Read More “Cracked pots”Breaking news! After years of avoiding the social media scene, Emily Chase is finally crying “Uncle!” You can find my author page at www.facebook.com/EmilyParkeChase. Basically all it does is lead you back here to my website, but at least this is a small step into the scary world of cyberspace. Because of this step, I …
Read More “Uncle!” EC is now on Facebook!July, 2012 More news…just had an article accepted by the magazine At the Center, a publication for people who work at pregnancy resource centers. “More than Food Stamps” is a reworking of a more technical article I had published in The Bible Translator years ago. The more popular version compares the circumstances of a …
Read More Back in touch!Breaking news! I just accepted a part time position working with Bethany Christian Services, the largest adoption agency in our state (www.bethany.org). As a post-adoption case worker, I’ll be facilitating support groups for families that have already completed the adoption process. The children involved have often been exposed to trauma in their families of origin …
Read More New Job!