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I lost my dad five years ago. I've been losing my mom to dementia for even longer. Earlier this month, I lost my dog. And a few months before that...
The path forward seemed so hard. My dream was to start Adventures.org, but it seemed impossible. Karen was pregnant with our fifth child (Talia, o...
This morning I walked up the steps to our office. Sitting on the porch were two women talking. One I've known for more than a decade. I remember w...
Reading about Baby Moses’ funeral on my son’s story about it broke my heart. My son’s blog and that of his teammate, Traci, take you gra...
To grow, you need pain. Muscles need resistance (pain) to grow larger. Learning new skills requires the painful process of practice and failur...
Our pets give us the chance to practice losing. As our kids grew, hamster burials gave way to dog funerals in our home. The funerals didn’t get any ...
For those who loved Schuylar Barnes, watching her fight cancer was excruciating. She wasn't just fighting for life. She was fighting for all the y...
If you are a parent or may one day raise children, what is your philosophy of pain? How much should you allow your children to experience? Surprisingl...
Wednesday night, Isaiah and Meghan Carter had been driving a long time across country to get home. The two lanes of Clark's Bridge Road were dark,...
It's a hard time for all of us. Life as we lived it doesn't work. But we haven't figured out the new life that we were meant to live. What do we do...
