“Don’t get your hopes up!” were the words the upper classman spoke to me when I was getting ready to compete for the only open chair in the symphonic brass band. “Don’t get my hopes up? You’ve got to...
“Sometimes, it’s the people in your inner circle that keep you from fulfilling your destiny.“ I was sitting in an Advance Your Reach program when I heard a coach say that, and it struck me deeply. I...
With red eyes, brimming with tears, his voice broke as he choked out these words, “I was raised in a culture that does not treat women respectfully, and now I’ve lost my wife. I believed those...
Something profound happened to me on that evening. Words that I heard challenged everything about my life. About how I thought. About how I viewed the world. I was a teenager, basically scared to...
“I knew she was already gone, but I was holding her in my arms, secretly hoping I was wrong. But I knew I wasn’t.” “I was 16 and she was like a sister to me, lying limp in my arms with no...
“I just don’t think I can take it anymore!” were the words I heard between her sobs. “I never know what ‘next thing’ will be what takes my place! First it was the beer, then the porn, then the cigar...
I had a blanket I was wrapped up in, so I could pull it up over my eyes when the witch came on the Wizard of Oz. My sister loved to watch that movie, and would beg me to watch it with her again and...
“Buckle up securely and brace for impact.” I was terrified! We were descending quickly and you could see absolutely nothing in the white-out snowstorm. We knew we were descending quickly, and suddenly...
“What really matters becomes clearer, and you just don’t care about what doesn’t matter all that much.” She continued, “We (her partner and her) were talking about something that I used to be...
