by Marsh Engle | Jan 3, 2018
And, it wasn’t comfortable. Even though I’d been in many rooms just like this one before. A birth condition requiring multiple surgeries with long, drawn out recoveries made hospitals, needles, tests and physicians a familiar environment. But, this time was different,...
by Adele Green | Jan 2, 2018
I woke up to the smell of hot butter on toast. I loved visiting Granny’s house. I was a curious child with blond hair and red cheeks. “If you ask why, one more time,” Granny used to say. She taught me how to read before I went to school. One day I discovered a...
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 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...
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