Valerie Curren is a Christian wife, mother, blogger, licensed professional counselor, hobby genealogist, & avid reader. She & most of her family live in Metro Detroit. She began blogging in 2012 as an outlet for stress related to her special needs son's pending Liver Transplant. Multiple blogs & posts have been dedicated to chronicling much of the high intensity medical journey with Josiah, her youngest son. Currently her primary blog is SpecialConnections.wordpress.com where there is an eclectic mix of personal, cultural, spiritual, political, & historical writings. Recently she has been invited as a guest author at Wolfmoon's Q-Treehouse, a daughter blog of the Conservative Treehouse. wqth.wordpress.com TheQTree.com Her current primarily medical focused blog is https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/josiahcurren Historical archive of her son's liver transplant journey is JazzmanJournal.wordpress.com & archiving a friend's parallel liver transplant journey is ChristLikeKara.wordpress.com Helping her autistic son find an online voice has been a joy JosiahsFreakShow.wordpress.com JosiahTheSecretWeapon.wordpress.com Josiah's twin, Brandon, has quite a unique & insightful blogging voice too NotSoSubtlePoet.wordpress.com/ With all 4 of our kids in their 20's, 1 is married, 2 are engaged to be married in 2020 & 2021 & the other one pursuing an international relationship that may lead to marriage, things have been quite exciting in our family for a number of years. Preparing for a special needs wedding & marriage for our youngest son is one of the unique adventures our family is currently engaged in. God is Good & it will be exciting to see what He does in the coming years!