Category: Heart & Healing
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2026: Choosing Balance (and Doing Less on Purpose)
or what some would call the I’m Back post. I’ve never been a go big or go home kind of goal-setter. Sure, I love a good fresh start. I love a clean notebook, a new year, a blank calendar begging for color-coded plans. But I’ve learned the hard way that sprinting into January usually means…
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Today will NOT be Forgotten
There are still pieces of that day living in people’s homes, hearts, and minds. For some, it’s a tattooed memorial: 343 inked into skin to honor the firefighters who ran toward the flames. For others, it’s the memories they carry from being there. Years ago, I shared my life with a firefighter who was called…
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A Heavy Heart for Our Country
I am devastated at the state of our country. Freedom of speech has been a right since day one — a cornerstone of what it means to live here. Charlie Kirk was a bold advocate of that right. He built a platform not by silencing people, but by inviting them in. He opened the floor…
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The Day That Split My Year in Two
August 21st is a date etched in my bones. By then, 2024 had already taken its swings—my nephew’s death in March, the doctor’s words in July that felt like my own death sentence. I was standing, but barely. And then the phone rang. It was my sister. My brother-in-law, my brother, really, because family is…
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