Sloan's World

Sloan hit the media big time this week with a photo appearing in the newspaper, and a TV interview this Saturday! The newspaper article appeared in the News and Observer. It was a feature on Reality Ministries. We had a chance to speak to the reporter and photographer at the Reality Center on Monday, and they had the unenviable task of finding just a few things to highlight when they could have potentially done a whole story on every single person they interviewed concerning how Reality Ministries plays a role in their lives. You can find the article here , and there is a great picture of Sloan and Janie in the gallery. On Saturday, Sloan and Cameron went to the Raleigh Television Network studios to tape an interview on Speak Up, Speak Out: Voices in the Community . The host is an old friend of ours named Karen Stallings . Karen, as the Executive Director of the NC Self-Advocate's Association, was a guest at one of Sloan's Common Ground Self-Advocate meetings in Septemb

Everyone who knows Sloan knows that he LOVES music. Most of you know that he mostly enjoys kids/family music, and that he listens to an XM radio station called Kids Place Live . They play great fun music, and the radio is on from the moment Sloan wakes up until he goes to bed, every single day. (You may not know that Sloan's computer can also function as a remote control. Sloan is able to browse around for different music on his radio, and is a big ol' channel flipper.:-) He always goes back to Kids Place Live though.) One of the artists that Sloan hears on the radio 1-2 times an hour in the typical rotation is a musician named Billy Jonas . ALL of Billy's songs are favorites and are very well loved. Sloan has heard Billy's songs, interviews and live performances on the radio, his cds, and even on our local NPR show, The State of Things . (To get an idea of Billy's wonderful personality, soothing voice, and excellent music, we highly recommend this interview!) Bill

Hear ye, Hear ye! Sloan has become very interested (and a little obsessed) in poetry lately. He is building up a nice collection on his computer, and tears through them as soon as they get entered. Sloan is discovering what kinds of poetry he likes, and we thought it might help him if he knew what kinds of poetry his friends and family like to read. If you have a favorite poem, a favorite poet or write your own, please share it with Sloan!! You can email it or post it as a comment here. Also, this is a good resource for finding specific poems that can easily be printed out- Poem Hunter . If you find something, share a link! Thank you! We will all see how this develops...