Saving the Discovery Museum
Perilous Plunge participants take the leap for the Redwood Discovery Museum in 2017. Wednesday afternoon was their scheduled weekly supervised visit with their mom; every week they'd come into the same room with the same books and toys, while I sat on an office chair at the door jotting down notes. Before I became a staff writer at the Journal, I worked with Humboldt County youth at an afterschool program, a summer camp and at the foster care agency. Some of my job included monitoring supervised visits like these. "Mom played with daughter. Mom engaged in a conversation with her son and aske...