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Love, Hope and Grief for Cindy's Friend's Daughter "Ave the Brave"
Season 1 Episode 23
Once in a great while, maybe even just once in a lifetime, a person comes along who totally changes your perspective, teaches you what matters and gi…
4 years, 1 month ago
Mental Health Check on The Power of Word Choice
Season 1 Episode 52
Thanks to a brilliant TED talk by Baratunde Thurston, I’m thinking about how people tell the story of what’s happened. I also reached out to my neur…
4 years, 1 month ago
How To Make A Movie
Season 1 Episode 96
Yllka Gashi is Kosovo’s answer to Jennifer Aniston. After years starring in the nation’s most adored sit-com, she left her war torn country to raise…
4 years, 1 month ago
Love, Hope and Grief for Liz's Nephew Jack
Season 1 Episode 22
12 year-old Jack was an artist, a brilliant reader, a mathematician, a serious student of the Bible and a lover of Legos, baseball and his family. A…
4 years, 1 month ago
Mental Health Check on Family Culture
Season 1 Episode 51
Coming off a family wedding, I dug out a copy of The Middle Place to share a passage about learning that my fertility was a casualty of the cancer wa…
4 years, 2 months ago
Lessons in Lemonade Making with Cherylann Gengel
Season 1 Episode 95
The worst thing that can happen to a mother happened to Cherylann Gengel. And it has changed every moment since. She is one of those high purpose p…
4 years, 2 months ago
Love, Hope and Grief for Kirsten's Dad Tom AKA Papa Fom
Season 1 Episode 21
Kirsten’s dad Tom was beloved by his kids and grandkids (one of whom couldn’t pronounce the letter “T”, resulting in the nickname Papa Fom). Tom was…
4 years, 2 months ago
Mental Health Check Figuring Out Mindfulness
Season 1 Episode 50
Here’s a word that everyone is saying these days: mindfulness. I don’t totally know what it means, officially, but I have jerry-rigged a little proc…
4 years, 2 months ago
Sit down? No Thanks, I'd Rather Stand.
Season 1 Episode 94
As a 19 year old, Letitia Hanke took a job as a receptionist at the local roofing company. Within 10 years, she bought the business she has now been…
4 years, 2 months ago
Love, Hope and Grief Nancy's Mother "Sweet Little Ellie"
Season 1 Episode 20
The only person who didn’t know how truly special Ellie O’Connor was, was Ellie O’Connor. A woman of action, not words she was pure magic - able to …
4 years, 2 months ago