by Kirstin O'Donovan | Jan 2, 2018
As I sifted through the piles of papers and notes I had collected over the years, each item brought up a different emotion. I got that lump in my throat and that heaviness in my heart – to say I was overcome with nostalgia would be an understatement. As I got deeper...
by Gina Van Luven | Jan 2, 2018
“We can’t find anything wrong with you,” my gastrointestinal doctor said after hours of painful testing. “What do you mean there’s nothing wrong? There’s obviously SOMETHING wrong because I feel TERRIBLE!” “Well,” he continued, “I think you may have something called...
by Lorraine Garnett | Jan 2, 2018
I was in my usual mind fog. There was a time when secretly in my head, I’d hum and chant and repeat the same phrases until I’d feel like my brain was in a knot that kept getting tighter and tighter. Outside my head, in the world of time and matter, I was said to have...
by Ben Underwood | Jan 2, 2018
Thank Jesus I’m blind . . . In 1994 at age two I lost my eyes to a childhood disease called retinoblastoma—which is cancer in both eyes. At age three I taught myself echolocation—where I use sound to see. I ride bikes, skate, and play video games—you name it. I do...
by Faith Deeter | Jun 26, 2017
“Be strong.” She said. My mother’s words pierced every cell of my body that morning and they have continued to resonate with me to this day. Her tone was strong and yet somehow it still relayed the underlying heartbreak of what she was about to tell me. I knew in that...
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