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Just as my daughter's softball game was about to begin, the team's coach asked me run the concession stand. The request left me speechless—if I went to the stand, I'd miss the entire game. Why me?B...

Dear Shauna,I'm just writing to share some thoughts and prayers I had today. I know you're struggling at times to make ends meet, and I completely understand. You know I have been there many times...

I joined a gym that opened close to my home. This was a great way for me to stay active and still have my two-and-a-half year old son Christopher in tow. He hung out in the children’s area while Mo...

“Can I really do this?”“Am I up to this task?”These were among the questions my friend and I were asking ourselves as we traveled across the Midwest. It was early June, and we were on a two-day dri...

I loved college—except on weekends. I was studying at a "suitcase campus," meaning many students—including my roommate—went home at the end of the week. My own home was several hours away...

My husband John and I lived with our 3-year-old daughter Jennifer just a stone’s throw away from my in-law’s house on the family cattle ranch. Jennifer spent nearly every day with her grandparents...

On what should have been a quiet, routine commute, a verbal battering caught me by surprise.I boarded the train as I do most mornings and found one empty seat between two large men. The guy next to...

I started drinking in my 20s and continued for 15 years, into the mid-'80s. By then, I was drinking every day, mostly after work. I got to the point where I couldn't go anywhere, even to visit fami...

Easter is early this year, and springtime has followed suit here in London, England. The middle of March boasts blue skies, daffodils aplenty and magnolia blossoms on the verge of blooming. The fir...