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10/17/2026

Happy Anniversary Kevin Michael Daus! I love you the day we married and even more today! Thank you for a wonderful anniversary baecation

10/14/2026

🚨 **SOMEBODY IS DEAD… AND THAT'S NOT EVEN THE BIGGEST DRAMA!** 👀😂

📚🔥 **NO MORE SHELLS — THE NOVEL IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER!**

**Eight women. Twenty years of friendship. A lifetime of secrets.**

What happens when eight longtime girlfriends gather for an elegant dinner?

**BABY, YOU BETTER PULL UP A CHAIR!** 🍷

We've got marriages in trouble, friendships being tested, scandalous secrets, questionable decisions, and one woman who says EVERYTHING everybody else is thinking!

And then there's **FeFe the dog!** 🐩

Honey, when a DOG gets better treatment than twenty years of friendship, you already know somebody's about to lose their mind! 😂

We're talking expensive furniture, fine china, high-society attitudes, and a dinner party that might never recover!

Oh, and did I mention?

**SOMEBODY IS DEAD!** ⚰️

But *No More Shells* isn't your typical whodunit. It's a hilarious, dramatic, sometimes heartbreaking look at what happens when people spend more time protecting their image than protecting their relationships.

Inspired by my book *Shells with No Substance* and adapted from my original theatrical production *No Shells*, this novel brings the outrageous comedy, unforgettable characters, and powerful revelations of the stage to the page.

📖 **NO MORE SHELLS — THE NOVEL**

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**Some people have skeletons in their closets. Others have a dog eating off the good china!** 🐩😂

💬 **QUESTION:** If your friend wouldn't let YOU eat off her good china but let a DOG use it, what would you say? 😂👇

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09/10/2026

Please take a moment to read and share this blog with your friends, family members, media friends, community leaders, and legislators. More than 20 years after Juan’s Law, there is still more work to be done to strengthen protections for children in licensed child care. Our voices matter, and change often begins when enough people are willing to speak up. Please help us keep this conversation moving forward and continue the fight for the safety, protection, and well being of our children.
Please take a moment to read and share this blog with your friends, family members, media friends, community leaders, and legislators. More than 20 years after Juan’s Law, there is still more work to be done to strengthen protections for children in licensed child care. Our voices matter, and change often begins when enough people are willing to speak up. Please help us keep this conversation moving forward and continue the fight for the safety, protection, and well being of our children.

A parent should not have to discover, after a child is badly hurt, that the child care provider responsible for care had no liability insurance.That is the gap Georgia still has not closed.More than 20 years after Juan’s Law, families have a right to ask whether a child care provider carries liabi...

09/09/2026

25 Years Since Juan's Story Began — And Georgia Still Hasn't Finished the Job

Twenty-five years ago this week — September 9, 2001 — a 14-month-old boy named Anthony DeJuan "Juan" Boatwright was left unattended at a state-licensed daycare in Augusta, Georgia, and fell headfirst into a bucket of mop water mixed with bleach.He nearly drowned in that bucket while at daycare. Doctors said he'd never recover — that he'd spend his life in a vegetative state.Instead, his mother brought him home after 65 days in the hospital and kept fighting for him. Juan lived for 11 more years, sustaining severe brain damage until he passed away in 2012.

His mother, Jackie Boatwright, turned unimaginable grief into a fight that changed the law. On July 1, 2004, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed "Juan's Law" — requiring licensed daycare centers to tell parents, in writing, if the center does NOT carry liability insurance. Two years later, Jackie took her fight to Virginia, where Governor Tim Kaine signed a version of Juan's Law on March 1, 2006. Her advocacy even reached Congress — the Anthony DeJuan Boatwright Act passed the U.S. House in 2012, but stalled in the Senate and never became federal law.

Here's the part most Georgia parents don't know, even 25 years later:

Juan's Law only requires disclosure. It does NOT require daycare centers to actually carry liability insurance. The law itself — O.C.G.A. § 20-1A-4(9) — only gives the state the power to recommend that a licensed center carry coverage. If the center chooses not to, all it has to do is post a notice and get a parent's signature acknowledging they were told. That's it.

And as recently as this year, lawmakers tried to close that gap. House Bill 269 would have required Georgia child care centers and family child care homes to carry commercial general liability insurance — at least $500,000 per occurrence, $1 million total. It died in committee. It never even got a floor vote.

So a quarter-century after Juan's accident, the underlying gap his mother has spent her life trying to close is still open: a Georgia daycare can be found negligent, a child can be catastrophically hurt, and if that center has no insurance and no assets, a family can be left with a judgment on paper and nothing to collect. Mothers and fathers are trusting their children's lives to a system that only requires a piece of paper acknowledging the risk — not actual protection if something goes wrong.

Juan's Law was a first step. It was never meant to be the last one. 25 years later, it's time to finish what it started.

Twenty five years ago, my 14 month old son fell headfirst into a bucket of bleach laced mop water inside a licensed Georgia daycare.His name was Anthony DeJuan “Juan” Boatwright.On September 9, 2001, Juan was left unattended while in the care of a state licensed child care center in Augusta, Geo...

09/02/2026

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08/29/2026

The seed planted and water, now waiting on God's manifestation

08/28/2026

Get to know Juanderful!

What if your visit to a medical spa did more than address a wrinkle, a thinning hairline, stubborn areas of fat or changes in your skin? What if someone actually took the time to look at the bigger picture?At Juanderful Aesthetics in Brookhaven, Georgia, beauty is not approached as a collection of i...

08/25/2026

New Way to think about Hair Loss

If you’ve been noticing thinning hair or a receding hairline, you’re not alone. Hair loss can feel like a real confidence crusher, but guess what? You don’t have to settle for hats or scarves forever. Today, I’m diving into the latest advanced hair restoration options that don’t involve go...

08/25/2026

Ptosis from Botox

Botox is widely used to smooth wrinkles and rejuvenate the face, but its effects on patients with pre-existing eyelid ptosis require careful consideration. Eyelid ptosis, or drooping of the upper eyelid, can be subtle and sometimes compensated by other muscles, making it easy to overlook before trea...

08/21/2026

Dreamer, Sleeper or Worker?

The Bible never condemns dreaming. Joseph was a dreamer. God gave him a vision of where his life was going long before he arrived there. But Joseph did not simply dream—he **worked faithfully in every season between the dream and its fulfillment**.

The danger is when someone wants the harvest of the dreamer but carries the habits of the sleeper.

Proverbs 6:9–11 asks:
“How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?”

And Proverbs 14:23 says:
“In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.”

That will preach because there are really **three different people**:

**The sleeper** wants comfort.
**The talker** wants credit for intentions.
**The dreamer who works** is willing to get up and build what they saw.

A dream without discipline becomes fantasy.

Faith does not eliminate work. **Faith gives your work direction.**

Joseph dreamed, but then he served in Potiphar’s house. He worked in the prison. He managed responsibility when nobody was applauding him. By the time Pharaoh elevated him, Joseph already had the discipline necessary to manage what God had shown him years earlier.

**“Some people keep praying for the life the dreamer sees while maintaining the habits of the sleeper. At some point, you have to wake up and work.”**

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