Stories

How do you say good-bye to an old friend? The big red building at 5407-8th Avenue was “home” to so many of us for so long that it really feels like leaving someone behind as we make a momentous move to a new place. Over the years, that red building has seen so much. If walls could talk, as they say, those walls would have tales to tell. Tales of kind, caring people working hard to provide quality services to those in need. People brainstorming on how to meet the needs of the community when there was, quite frankly, no […]

Strange days, indeed. The age of the Covid-19 pandemic has brought with it much more than just the illness itself. We are living in times that are unprecedented. Families have been home-schooling their children and are now wondering if schools will reopen in the fall. Businesses hoped to reopen and now are rethinking their decision and scaling back operations as we’re seeing an increase in positive coronavirus cases. People who were furloughed months ago are still waiting for their unemployment money and fear being homeless. And there is a constant political argument of “to mask or not to mask”. Of […]

Loving each other is simple. We are born knowing how to do it. Listening to one another is easy. You just stay quiet and let the other person speak. Those two things combined are a great beginning to understanding and healing. But they are not enough. Idle solidarity, or static love, isn’t enough to create the change that must be made in the world. It’s true that it can seem so overwhelming to know how to help, where to start, what to do. The events of the past week beginning with the death of George Floyd and the subsequent marches […]

So, the State of Wisconsin is open for business. No one is really sure what that means though because we are certain the virus that has been keeping us all mindfully distancing ourselves from one another is still out there, still dangerous and still just as easy to contract. At KHDS, we will continue to do business as usual. That means, for now, we will not make any changes to return to a more open door policy and our business will continue to be done as we have been able to do it – by phone, by video, face to […]

The upheaval that has been our lives for the past few weeks has, I’m sure, made us all feel restless and anxious. Everything we thought we knew about our homes, our work, our families and ourselves is being tested by having to face either daily changes or day to day sameness. There is also the grey cloud of the unknown that just hangs over everything like a dense fog. The unknowns of if we are doing enough to stay safe, if we are going to make it another week, or if we will ever get back to something that seems […]