Changing Times
It was a bleak time for my family. My dad was between jobs, my sister was going into her junior year, and I was ...
Resilience
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Cancer Unwrapped
March 13th, 2011. For most, this day was just another Wednesday; However, for me this became the day I will always ...
Life, Death, and Probability; Lessons Learned from a Mother with Cancer
The world we live in is undeniably deadly; if one crunches the numbers, one discovers how everything in our daily ...
True Beauty is Strength
For most people my age they have not come face to face with death. Whether it be directly or indirectly, they have ...
Pioneer
Statistics show that everyday 43 kids are diagnosed with childhood cancer, on September 9, 2009 I was one of those ...
A blessing in disguise
It seemed as if I had been laying on the top of Mt. Everest to bathing in the lava of a scorching volcano. I felt ...
Have grace Madison. Be kind.
"Have grace Madison. Be kind." These words played over, and over in my head as I stood at the exit of my mother's ...