…Marla Jones-Price, JFS Ken Weinberg Employment Specialist 9:00 a.m. I check messages and return a potential new client’s phone call. We set up a meeting for later that week. I email some tips for a successful interview to a current client who has an interview the following day. I want to be sure she has…
“Even a Poor Man”
A few weeks ago, I was told that a small check arrived from a Polack Food Bank home delivery recipient. There was also a note of thanks and a request that the money be used to help others. Around the same time, an unemployed friend told me that she found herself more generous with financial…
Poetry From Young Refugees and Immigrants
JFS resettles people from across the globe and serves over 80 young refugees a year. Many are enrolled in English Language Learner programs in Kent and Tukwila. Tukwila’s Foster High School, one of the most language diverse schools in the nation, is home to the poetry workshop known as the Stories of Arrival: Youth Voices Poetry Project. Most of…
The Graduation Speech I’d Give
When my son was in kindergarten, his teacher challenged a group of us parents saying, “You shouldn’t worry about what your kids will become. You should be concerned with who they will become.” I’d issue the same challenge to this year’s college graduates: Forget about your career and what you will become. Don’t worry that…
From Baku to Bellevue
After my marriage in 1956, I lived in the city of Baku, Azerbaijan, located on the shore of the Caspian Sea. Baku, a place on the border of Europe and Asia, was a beautiful site with many buildings in European and Asian styles. A lot of people of different nationalities lived there, and there were…
Shavuot Values for Preschoolers
Shavuot is a largely ignored and often forgotten Jewish holiday. (Except, of course, for the license it gives to eat dairy products. We’re talking serious cheesecake here.) But the holiday commemorates a very important event: the giving of the 10 Commandments to Moses on Mt. Sinai. The biblical story associated with Shavuot, the Book of…
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