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Night of Horror

The phone rang at 1 A.M.  I got up to answer, and heard my sister-in-law's voice on the other end.   "There's a problem with Keith. They want me at the hospital. Can you drive me?"  she asked. I don't remember the drive to Mt. Carmel Hospital, except for pulling into the area reserved for ...


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The Night I saw History Made

Last night Nov. 4th, 2008 I saw history made.The last few months I have had a zeal in supporting Barak Obama in his canidacy for president. Many times I felt alone here in a staunch republican county in Mississippi. I believed that Barack would not only be a good president, but a great one.I ...


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Be Careful What You Wish For

Featuring: Alice Shapiro
Written by: Tamar Burris
Finding herself out of work after 12 long years at a secretarial position, Alice Shapiro had simply had enough. The unknown future swirled and leapt around her. What would she ...
Comments (3) Jul 03, 2009 1,011
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Wildflowers, Wild Animals, and Wild Politics

Featuring: Christine Chesire
Written by: Joyce Macias
“I’m not a Buddhist or anything but I do have great respect for all living creatures,” my neighbor Christine Chesire explained after saying she’d recently freed a wasp that ...
Comments (0) Jul 01, 2009 13,443
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Success is the Best Revenge

Featuring: Josh Opperman
Written by: Tamar Burris
Josh Opperman thought had met “the one.” Having courted his girl for several years, he was ready to take the plunge. Loaded with ammo from several discussions about the ...
Comments (4) Jun 30, 2009 27,078
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Flying With a Heart and a Mission

Featuring: Ed Boyer
Written by: Sarah Peppel
Punching in the emergency access code, Ed Boyer connected with his party across choked telephone lines. It was August 29, 2005 and Hurricane Katrina had just devastated ...
Comments (4) Jun 28, 2009 32,434
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I Wish They All Could Be California Girls….

Featuring: Jeremy Stottlemeyer
Written by: Adara Bernstein
“Do you remember the story ‘The Grinch’ where the mean Grinch whip-drives his tiny little dog dragging a completely overstuffed sleigh up the mountain (back when his heart was ...
Comments (3) Jun 24, 2009 17,547
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A 'Floozy' Visits The South

Featuring: Hillary Buchanan
Written by: Adara Bernstein
Growing up in a small town where everyone knows everyone else’s business can be trying to a girl with dreams of visiting the world. Hillary Buchanan sensed this, even if ...
Comments (3) Jun 23, 2009 16,957
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Nocturnal Notations: Whisperings of the Night Voices

Featuring: Melanie Lucas
Written by: Kristen Kuhns
As the sun slumps down into its nested bed, bathing the earth with only a soft glow and slipping eventually into darkness, Melanie Lucas notices a hard lump forming in her chest. ...
Comments (3) Jun 22, 2009 46,798
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Dignity, Honor, and Love…The Final Breath

Featuring: Father Tom Belleque
Written by: Julianne Barclay
Fr. Tom Belleque has a great love for orphans. When he is not the pastor at St. Louis Catholic Church in Bellevue, Washington he spends his time with the orphans of Nuestros ...
Comments (3) Jun 21, 2009 35,664
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The Tragedy of Being Gerard Montenegro

Featuring: Gerard Montenegro
Written by: Kristen Kuhns
Gerard chews gum like a cow. Or at least that’s what his mother always told him, and every time she did it made him chew louder and cuddier. He snaps it, he blows big bubbles ...
Comments (2) Jun 18, 2009 47,071
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Mom, You May Still See Me As Your Little Girl

Featuring: Sherise Jones
Written by: Adara Bernstein
“Mom, You May Still See Me As Your Little Girl” A Foster Care Story Sherise Jones looks at the mirror and wonders if it’s lying to her - she sees a younger girl, but feels ...
Comments (3) Jun 17, 2009 11,467
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Learning To Love A Super Woman

Featuring: Ria Benedict
Written by: Cara Moorehead
Ria Benedict, Superwoman. This is the description Ria uses when discussing the person that she used to be and, perhaps surprisingly, the one she didn't like. Most people think ...
Comments (5) Jun 16, 2009 27,725
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Aquaman Is Not My Favorite SuperHero

Featuring: Janis Holcomb
Written by: Kristen Kuhns
Janis Holcomb is scared of water. Pools, lakes, even slippy slides. Really, really, really, really afraid. Not because of an irrational aquaphobia, but because of what ...
Comments (3) Jun 15, 2009 28,098
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A Pair of Smelly Old Socks

Featuring: Jerry Czerniecki
Written by: Adara Bernstein
This isn’t a story about a man overcoming all obstacles. This isn’t a story about a man having an epiphany after a momentous occasion. No, this is a story about a smelly, ...
Comments (2) Jun 14, 2009 19,133
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Never Say Can’t To Lance

Featuring: Lance Evander
Written by: Tamar Burris
“Never Say Can’t in a Place in Desperate Need of a Little More ‘Happy’” If they’d known him as a child, his friends never would have giggled and teased. No matter that the ...
Comments (5) Jun 11, 2009 33,914
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The Freedom Lady: Eight Decades of Free Thinking

Featuring: Anne Cleveland
Written by: Tamar Burris
Growing up in Northeast Georgia in the Great Depression, Anne Cleveland was privy to a lot of adult conversation during the lunchtime gatherings that happened nearly every ...
Comments (5) Jun 10, 2009 41,277
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Shouting from the Rooftops

Featuring: Lisa Saunders
Written by: Jenoa Briar-Bonpane
Shouting from the Rooftops: Preventing Congenital CMV "The story of a family, a big, homeless canine and a disabled girl" “Oh my gosh, she doesn’t look right,” thought ...
Comments (10) Jun 09, 2009 26,675
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Stories of the Whipping Boy

Featuring: Justin Matott
Written by: Sarah Peppel
Justin Matott stood in awkward embrace as the elder gentleman hugged him as if his life depended on it. He didn't recognize the older man until the words of apology began to pour ...
Comments (7) Jun 08, 2009 76,275
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The Gift of Treasured Mountain

Featuring: Zak Barclay
Written by: Julianne Barclay
Our son Zak’s ‘delivery room’ is the concourse of Terminal C. He arrived into our family on a United Airlines flight from Beijing to the United States in 2003 as a very small ...
Comments (7) Jun 07, 2009 72,784
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From Sandwiches to Screen Plays

Featuring: Tony Luke Jr.
Written by: Sarah Peppel
"From Sandwiches to Screen Plays: Feeding a Different Hunger" Stand ing in the dark theater, Tony Luke Jr. eyed the audience as they watched his first feature length ...
Comments (5) Jun 04, 2009 27,797
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Baby Love

Featuring: Shelly Aldrich
Written by: Rachel Musgrove
Long before trendy Brad and Angelina were sporting sling-style baby carriers, Shelly Aldrich of Baby Bundlers knew for herself that it wasn’t “about style or glitz. This is ...
Comments (3) Jun 03, 2009 22,971

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