Honoring My Mom an Award Called The Judith Dirks Award
My mom got an award named after her, such a awesome thing!
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2023
Beaches, Parks, and Broken-Down Cars
Our family road trip continues from Crescent City, to San Francisco, and Los Angeles (Santa Monica).
The First Leg: Sand Dunes and Family Fun
We’ve made it through the first leg of our family road trip.
Adding to the Ellipsis After My Name: Earning My Ph.D.
I am proud to announce that I have earned my Ph.D., and I wanted to share with everybody more information about it.
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense by Jacob Campbell [YouTube Video]
This presentation is the slides used during my doctoral defense at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in the Transformative Studies Departme...
Defending My Dissertation Tomorrow
I’m defending my dissertation
2022
Using AI to Create a Form: ChatGPT and My Move to Mastodon
I’ve been playing around with moving from Twitter to Mastodon. I wanted to create a shared form to collect other social workers’ user information, to help in...
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles - Florida Family Vacation Starts
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Hierarchy in Academic Sources and Researching Advice for Social Work Students [YouTube Video]
Learn how to prioritize what type of source to use in academic writing.
2021
E-15 I’ll Give You Something to Cry About [Link Post] Permalink
Link post for episode of the Mother Dearest Show
The Temperature Bacteria Grows In [Link Post] Permalink
Link post for episode of the Mother Dearest Show
Responsibility and Freedom [Link Post] Permalink
Link post for episode of the Mother Dearest Show
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Link post for episode of the Mother Dearest Show
Recuredos en Vida de Patricia del Villar Martinez [YouTube]
A remembrance video for my concuñada Patricia del Villar Martinez
They Were On To Something with that Yoga Thing [Link Post] Permalink
Link post for episode of the Mother Dearest Show
Letting Go [Link Post] Permalink
Link post for episode of the Mother Dearest Show
Opening a Portal to Connection [Link Post] Permalink
Link post for episode of the Mother Dearest Show
How Do We Figure out What We Really Want: Listening to Our Inner Voice [Link Post] Permalink
Link post for episode of the Mother Dearest Show
Breaking Through the Eye Wall of the Storm into Summer
This year has hit me a little like hurricane. I’m glad to have made it throught the eyewall of the storm and I am ready for some summer.
Some of the Story of My Dad [Link Post] Permalink
Link post for episode of the Mother Dearest Show
Envisioning a Better Future: An Interview with My Kids [YouTube Video]
A short documentary-style interview with my kids looking at how they envision a more sustainable world.
The Right People at the Right Time [Link Post] Permalink
Link post for episode of the Mother Dearest Show
Completion is Not Final, It’s More of a Phase [Link Post] Permalink
Link post for episode of the Mother Dearest Show
Challenges in Starting Psychiatric Medications
Medication can help us to make it through really challenging situations
Knowing Ourselves - As Change Agents How We Keep Ourselves Unstuck [Link Post] Permalink
Link post for episode of the Mother Dearest Show
The Breaking and Breakthroughs in our Lives [Link Post] Permalink
Link post for episode of the Mother Dearest Show
I Finally Started, My New Project The Mother Dearest Show
I’ve been working really hard to create something and I wanted to share it with people.
Connecting with the Divine - Spirituality and Systems Thinking[Link Post] Permalink
Link post for episode of the Mother Dearest Show
Our First Episode - Tarot Cards and EMDR in Counseling [Link Post] Permalink
Link post for episode of the Mother Dearest Show
2020
Pixar’s Soul an Interesting View of States of Flow
Another great Pixar movie that made me think, so sharing some connections with the topic of flow.
Pacific City Beach Trip: Rituals are Good
The ritual of going to the beach every year is a good thing that makes my heart feel kind of amazing.
Be Free, Releasing Sheldon
Story about releasing our pet turtle.
Cooperative Transformation [YouTube Video]
A creative encouragement for people to be cooperative through these difficult times
Making it Through The COVID-19 Pandemic with Words of the Day
Some creative writing using the last 27’s words of the day from the Look Up app to talk about the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Transdisciplinary Literature Reviews using Zotero, How I Manage References [YouTube Video]
Transdisciplinary literature reviews are complex and necessarily require reviewing a large amount of scholarly materials from various disciplines. Zotero can...
Stop Motion Video for Nana [YouTube Video]
A stop motion film that I made for my mom with my kids as an activity during quarantine.
Strengths-Based Engagement with Families [YouTube Video]
Have you wondered what implementing a strengths perspective is and how it works. How is using a strengths-based approach different to more conventional appro...
Reconnecting to the Divine: Book Review of Fox’s Creativity Book
The start of a book review on Fox’s Creativity, but more of a dive into my history in faith and my current standing.
Snow, No Problem… - Throwback YouTube Video from February 2019
Another short video filmed in February of 2019 playing in the snow.
Lets Go Sledding - Throwback YouTube Video from February 2019
A short video of going sledding with some of my kids last year (2019).
2019
Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back [Book Review]
A short book review of Zolli and Healy (2012) Resilience: Why things bounce back
Creation of an Annual Report for CEUs for my LICSW
Tracking trainings, CEUs, and our professional development is a vital task for clinicians who are licensed. The following post is about how I am creating an...
Creators on Creating Book [Infographic]
An infographic that I created reviewing some of the Barron, Montuori, and Barron’s book Creators on Creating
Creative Inquiry and the Ph.D.
I posted an essay about creative inquiry and this post describes what creative inquiry is and links to it.
Choosing a Research Topic - Criteria for Choosing and a Digital Tool
Picking a good research topic is challenging and important task that students, social workers, and teachers have to do. How do we go figuring out what we sho...
The Mise en Place for University Class Preparation
A look into some of the ways I put everything into place, as I am preparing for the classes I teach at University.
New Republic of the Heart - Book Review and I’m Going Back to School
A life update about going back to college and a bit of a book review on the New Republic of the Heart
Floating the River - Summer Fun
A short video and some photos from a recent short adventure floating down the river.
Getting Out of my Head - My Latest Audio Book Series
An update about some of current habits and my latest audio book series I just finished listening to, the Red Queen
Building in Evidence-based Practices to our Parenting
A little bit of background and my experience around Guiding Good Choices and the Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10-14.
2019 Family Trip to Leavenworth
Video and photos from family vacation to Leavenworth Washington.
Presentation at OSPI’s 2019 Student Support Conference - Better Together: Collaboration, Coordination, and Compassion
Information from conference presentation for OSPI’s 2019 Student Support Conference - Better Together: Collaboration, Coordination, and Compassion
Privilege It’s a Thing and We Should Care
All of the areas that privilege seems to be coming up in my life these days.
Is it Spring Yet? Duck Pond & River Fun
It feels like Spring is finally hear. We went to the Duck Pond at Columbia Park and fed the Ducks.
The 15 Hats (ahem, Roles) of Social Workers
Social workers all wear a number of different hats, or function in a number of different roles for their practice. In this video we talk about 15 different r...
Mutual Aid Model and Children with Special Needs
Mutual Aid groups are useful for all different types of needs, includes families of youth who have special needs.
Changing Problematic Behaviors, Principles of Operant Conditioning
One evidence-based method for addressing difficult and disruptive behaviors whether at school or home is through reinforcing the behaviors that we want to se...
ADHD Information for Practitioners, Parents, and Schools
A look into how to address Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) from the perspectives of clinicians, parents, and schools.
2016
2014
Is My Mac Magic?
Using Keyboard Maestro to get stuff done on my computer.
Who Said Traveling With a Toddler Was Easy
Disney World Magic Kingdom Entrance Sign to Lake Buena Vista Hotels
Probably Time to Eat My Wheaties
One of Michael Jordan’s boxes of Wheaties.
Positive Life Transition, Did Somebody Say Summer
My son, Mateo, at my mom’s for the 4th of July after playing in the sprinklers.
Quick Happy Birthday Graphic
SOA style Happy Birthday Graphic for Minnie
Jump in The Stream, Favorite Podcasts
A photo of me when I was going to Columbia Basin College doing a back flip into the Columbia River in Richland.
Review of Buttrick’s Practical Typography
Graphic of the dictionary definition of typography.
Back and it Went by like a Flash
The view of banner with the dates for next years Macworld / iWorld event.
The First Look, Conference Beginnings and Sights
The view of the Expo Hall at Macworld / iWorld coming down from the elevator at Monscone Center in San Francisco .
Bitten Years Ago, I’ve Got the Bug
Yes, I have the Travel Bug. A graphic I quickly put together in Adobe Illustrator depicting the words “Travel Bug” and some other graphics taken from All Fr...
Word Salad and Technical Jargon
A graphic I created in Adobe Illustrator depicting a vegetables, a salad bowl, and the text “word salad.” The veggies used are from All Free Download’s Sala...
It’s Final, Plan Tickets Bought
I’m GOING!
Review of David Sparks’s Markdown Book an Investigation to Formatting Documents
With the hard drive on my MacBook Pro out of commission, and that over the last year I’ve completely changed how I manage data storage, I figured it was time...
Atomic Throw Down Poster Designs
A while ago, I was doing quite a few poster designs for Natural Selection CrossFit (Facebook). I do really doing graphic design projects, although lately I f...
Growing So Fast, A Look Back at the Last Year
Mateo has been growing super fast over the last year. I put together a video showing his growth over the last year in iPhoto. I looked at a bunch of differen...
2013
For Unto Us [2013 Christmas Newsletter]
We sent out paper versions, but because printing is expensive we only sent it to some people. Sorry. If you want to be added to our mailing list, send a comm...
My 2013 Christmas Wish List
I mainly am making a Christmas wish list on here for my family, so that they can see some of the things I would be happy to receive for Christmas. I am by no...
The Wintertime DIY Painted Mirror
Made in the Diptic App on my mac. Wintertime DIY Painted Mirror
Speaking of Speaking, a Busy Week
This last week has been incredibly busy for me, but it’s also been very good. On Tuesday I had two major speaking activities to prepare for. At work, Tri-Cit...
Mateo the Old Man - DIY Old Man Halloween Costume
Mateo the Old Man: DIY Old Man Halloween Costume
Playing with Automator Services and Apple Script
A Header Image I created for my blog article about my playing with automator & AppleScript
The Great Pumpkin Mateo Campbell
It’s The Great Pumpkin Mateo Campbell
Transition to SquareSpace & Giant DYI Growth Chart Ruler
A photo of my finished giant growth chart DIY project complete with some photos of Mateo pasted on it.
Jacob The Not So Mad Scientist
This is a photo that I took of one of the toy’s that Mateo always throws on the ground while Minnie and I are sitting at the table and eating dinner.
Been So Long
This is a photo that I took from the alley way. I found out a couple of weeks after that this sign was still up after somebody rang out doorbell wanting to ...
An Allegory of the Free Market and Capitalism, Atlas Shrugged Book Review
Overview of the Book
First DIY Project, Useful Cup Holder for the Couch
This is the first DIY (Do It Yourself) project I’ve done for my blog. As I’ve been moving towards home ownership, I’ve been enamored by Pinterest and all of ...
Gun Violence & Mental Health
A graphic I created in Adobe Photoshop as a graphic thinking about all of the debate regarding mental health treatment and the gun control.
New and Fun Functionality
I’ve always been a little bit of a geek. That’s actually a little bit of why I’ve created this website in the first place… so that I could show off my geekyn...
Serving in the Cold, PDC Annual Community Survey
I was doing a Google Image Search, how any of my good Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator design projects start. I’m writing an post for my blog, Servi...
Birth Announcements and the Economics of Children
Official Birth Announcement
2012
Are You Ready or Not? Proud Father
A photo of Minnie at Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland and our baby Mateo Rodman Campbell, VSP.
Similarities of Bounty Hunters and Mental Health Case Managers
Are mental health case managers like bounty hunters? It is a question in I ask in my blog post Similarities of Bounty Hunters and Mental Health Case Manage...
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering Presentation
Recently at work, I created a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation for a training I did during one of our staff meetings. It is about affecting environmental ch...
Follow Me to Freedom, Leadership / Followership and Shane Claiborn and John Perkins
Come along as we live out this conversation … there are many obstacles—so much suffering, poverty and violence. But our God is familiar with suffering. Ou...
When it Rains it Pours
A photo taken by Ami while were both still living down in Cusco Peru during my travel experience of my Jaunt Down South 2010 . It showcases how during the...
Hard for the Economy as For Individuals
Yesterday, I was listening to an article on NPR’s Planet Money Even If You’re All-Powerful, It’s Hard To Fix The Economy.The article was all about how diffic...
My Friends Place Presents - Will Rage for Food – All Ages Event
Safe Harbor Crisis Nursery is putting on an event, My Friends Place Presents: Will Work For Food. I’m really excited. I started wanting to put on this eve...
Developing Strengths, Tim Roth’s Strengths Finder 2.0 Review
Tom Rath’s Strengths Finder 2.0 Book Cover. You can read Developing Strengths, Tim Roth’s Strengths Finder 2.0 Review.
Pasco Discovery Coalition Logo Ideas
I am very lucky at my job, to be able to be a part of a some community organizing. I have started to be involved with meetings associated with the Pasco Dis...
How’s Your Mental Efficiency, a Review of Arnold Bennett’s Book
Arnold Bennett’s book cover of Mental Efficiency
2012 Have a Heart for Kids Day
Writing Letters to my Representatives during Children’s Alliances’ Have a Heart for Kids Day.
Not a New Year’s Resolution… But I Think a Start
Not a monster. A graphic I took as a coloring page . I imported it into Adobe Illustrator and turned it into a paint area and painted it.
2011
I Dream of Christmas
The Best Christmas Light in the Tri-Cities
The 2011 Holiday Newsletter for Jacob & Minnie
The head section of our 2011 Christmas Newsletter.
A Look into Joining the Irresistible Revolution
I have been making a determined effort as of late, to push myself to read more. I try to spend some time in the morning reading my devotional (My Utmost for ...
Friends, Family, and Thanksgiving 2011
The “you are here” sign for Astoria Oregon’s Column.
Busy Weekend of Drinks, Fundraisers, and Outreaches
Safe Harbor Crisis Nursery Beggars’ 2011 was a wonderful event this year. Every year they have a large selection of Christmas Trees as silent auction items....
Can These Dry Bones Still be Raised, A Review on Chris Hodges’s Death of the Liberal Class
The book cover of Chris The book cover of Chris Hodges’s Death of the Liberal Class. You can view the book on Amazon.
The Lawyers & Artists Ball 2011 for My Friends Place
This is the graphic used for the Lawyer’s and Artists Ball 2011 Event. It is pretty amazing. I absolutely loved it…hopefully some day, I can make artwork of...
Still in The Right Profession
Job Well Done
It Starts Again
I have been been doing graphic and web design stuff for the last several years. It all started with an original blogspot website . My friends all started pos...
Business… Life, Work, and Organizations
Life has been busy lately, and I haven’t posted anything for a while. Most of my time has been taken up by working. I’m working as a Mental Health Case Manag...
2010
2010 Beggars Banquet Excitement
On Friday, I got the opportunity to go to Safe Harbor’s annual Beggars Banquet. It was a really great event, and so much bigger then I’ve seen it. It had bee...
Tri-Cities Wine Festival
The last couple of weeks have been pretty great. This last weekend was really fun. I got the opportunity to go to the 2010 Tri-Cities Wine Festival held at t...
Cool Stuff Happening
This is a screen shot of the Walk Score for my mom’s house. It’s pretty interesting. It comes up with a score of 30, and being car dependent. I would have t...
Safe Harbor Crisis Nursery Promotional Video
I really enjoy doing a little bit of graphic and web design, it seems like a good hobby. Sometimes it can take up just a little bit too much time, but I gene...
Creative Giving?
I think that creativity and ideas are everywhere for us, we just have to tap into them. It also seems that it is easy to come up with ideas about things to s...
Finally, it works!
Other then the job hunt, I’ve been spending some time online working on my website. Well, actually (not consistently) for the last several weeks I’ve been tr...
The Job Hunt Continues
A photoshoped designed logo for my job search. As I’ve been back in the US, I’ve been looking for a job. I feel kind of like Elmer Fudd and never finding my...
Which Style?
Hey, just looking for some feedback. which style do you think is better for my business cards. My old card has my photo, and is more relaxed. I was thinking ...
Two Tourist Capitals
A graphic I designed in Adobe Photoshop of the “Welcome to Las Vegas Sign” showing that I’m broke while here in Vegas.
Preparing for Real Life
Jacob Campbell and the Raiders of the Lost Ark! Very quickly photo shopped image of Indaina Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark movie poster with my face.
Corrupt Police, Pickpockets, and Broken Computers
It seems I only write when there is crazy stuff happening in my life… please don’t think that my life is so full of these crazy experiences.
Corpus Christi, Fashion Show, and Tipon… a Good Week
View of the Carroza de Plata with the Templo de Merced in the background
Mi Vida Loca
Mi Vida Loca or My Crazy Life
Student’s Protest & Jacob Torres Goes to The Hospital
You’ve heard of Teacher’s Striking But Never Students
Some Words Are the Same
A graphic I created in Adobe Photoshop with the hallelujah in different languages.
2009
New Experiences & Broken Things
The Late Birthday Present
Delays, Couchsurfing, and Boats… Oh My (Brazil)
A lot has happened since I last posted. I’ve uploaded a couple of different photo albums. You can check out Oi… its Brazil Facebook Album, Kite Running and L...
From Jungle to Jungle
More from Venezuela
Sad to Leave the Caribbean Lifestyle
Yacht Trips, All Inclusive Hotels, Two Day Birthday Celebrations, and Leaving
Out of Trinidad & Tobago and into the New World of Venezuela
This is a photo is from my missions trip to Africa. We went for a speak at a church in Goma . It was kind of intense, there apparently was fighting going on...
Quick Update From Isla de Margarita
While traveling sometimes, it seems like I might spend too much time on my computer. Especially because I am a bit of a perfectionist, I take quite a bit of ...
From Surreal to Real
Some background
Five Years Each
Five Years.
Weighing the Balance
The needs of the many verses the one. I made it in Adobe Illustrator, but I’m attaching the Adobe Photoshop file, because I can’t find the original Illustra...
Street Lights
Street Lights
The Economy and Social Work
With the worldwide, national, state, and local economies facing an economic downturn, it is important to examine its effects on social service agencies and s...
Abject Poverty, Orphanages, and Cuban Cigars
Los Niños de PPA
Peru Dias Tres y Cuatro
An artistic photo of The sidewalk in Parque Amor in Peru at Sunset.
The First Glimpse of Lima
The Plaza Mayor or Plaza de Armas of Lima, is the birthplace of the city of Lima, as well as the core of the city. Located in the Historic Center of Lima, i...
Cultural Awareness
Sign Inside of Zola’s .
Whew for a Moment… Now for the Next Step
Two other group members and myself have been working tirelessly on a research project. We are doing an effectiveness study of the Crisis Residential Center’s...
It’s All Relative
Marko Calasan: Mini Mozart of Computers is a story about an eight year old kid who has become the worlds youngest IT Professional. He passed the Microsoft Ce...
Working with Diverse Populations - Juvenile’s Involved in the Justice System
No Matter How Loud I Shout by Edward Humes is a powerful book about Juveniles in the Juvenile Justice System. You can find a copy of No Matter How Loud I Sh...
Do You Really Understand
Have you ever heard numbers, and wondered really what they mean. People say that they will be there or do something in a second, for things that are to be do...
Just a Bit Depreciated
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. – George Washington Ca...
2008
Adventure by the Fly
Ready to Roll
Soldiering for Social Work
My Snow Covered Car
Information Overload
I’m not exactly sure if it’s information overload, but getting off work tonight I felt like my brain was going to explode. I woke up this morning to go to a ...
Legislative Breakfast
A stock photo of breakfast.
So… It Starts Again
My yard in Spokane all snowy.
Stupid Flash Debugging
I taught myself xHTML, CSS several years ago. Since then I have learned some PHP and JavaScript, VisualBasic, and C++. The newest thing that I have been work...
New Church Building
A screenshot of the Victory Faith Fellowship of a collage of photos regarding their new church facility.
Fervent Retreat
Fervent Fall Retreat at Camp Tshimakain, Ford WA
Who Knew Ordering Pizza Could be Cool
The pizza tracking page on Domino’s
Now You Can Read What I’m Reading
One of the benefits of working in the afternoon is that I have time to take my mornings slowly. I tend to sit outside and and drink a cup of coffee and read ...
Google Elections
I must say that I am slightly biased as to which online products I like for various activities. I recently came across Google 2008 U.S. Elections. This has m...
Things Lost on the Trip
This Cartoon was taken from the blog Good Deed A Day . It features a Lost and Found Booth with boxes of various human feelings. While on my trip I didn’t lo...
The Way Home
Currently I am sitting in the Airport at Heathrow in London… and absolutely huge airport. But to catch you up on events, I have about 18 minutes until it’s t...
Even While Traveling, Still a Nerd
Tonight I sat around the hostel most of the night. I think I’m coming down with a cold, which is a stupid thing to have happen when your traveling. After eat...
From Hot to Cold
All Roads Lead to Rome
Suck, Suck, Major Suck
So you can expect to not have me uploading more pictures for a while. Currently my computer is broken. I don’t know if it is from stuffing my computer bag in...
Cup of Cool Water Continued
Bratislava… just passing though
Travelers Cup of Cool Water
A cool cup of water.
Münichen, The Tent, and Good Chicken
Great Beer from Hofbräuhaus. The Staatliches Hofbräuhaus in München is a brewery in Munich, Germany, owned by the Bavarian state government. The brewery own...
Prague, So Many Statues and Beautiful Streets
A bit of blur, Prague
Bus Trip and Rainy Searches for a Hostel
As promised, we did go to Prague (or in Czech “Praha”). It took 6 and a half hours to travel there by bus. We spent the morning wondering around the bus depo...
Berlin
A photo of a sign that say’s “L’ Ost in Paradise” taken in Berlin Germany
A Long Stinking Travel Day!
Passport to the world. A photo of my USA Passport that I took while I was sitting in the airport getting ready to leave for Europe.
Beginnings in Seattle
How I left my room prior to going to Europe.
Just About to Leave
I get off work in an hour and a half. In two hours I leave to take a 7.5 hour bus ride to Seattle. In one day I leave from Seattle and fly to Europe. The fir...
Site Overhaul Complete
Since purchasing this domain name, and transferring all of it to here I have been going to though and giving the entire site a brief overhaul. I’ve had relat...
Weird Sleep Schedule
I think all of these overnights that I’m working is catching up with me. A couple of nights ago, I worked an overnight and then had stuff I had to do all mor...
New Found Password
A photo of the overnight chair at the CRC. This is where I spend my hours at all night long.
Sending My Computer Away
A photo of the repair box
The Waiting is the Hardest Part
It seems like a lot of parts of my life are just like the blackberry bush picture, not quite ripe yet. I feel like I have had a lot of different things in my...
Dance Instructor Training
I had aspirations of becoming a dance instructor for quite a while. During my Fall Quarter 2006 I had a friend who was taking a dance class at Eastern. I wen...
New Website!
I just bought this new domain… and am pretty excited about it. I expect to see this blog plus jacobrcampbell.com change very drastically in the near future. ...