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Inspire Me!

She’s funny.
She’s caring.
She lives her life – every day.
Sometimes I wonder how much one person can handle.
But there’s one thing I don’t have to wonder about – her strength.

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Photo by Barry Yanowitz
He was a 35-year-old man.
He was a dedicated husband.
He was a proud father of two.
He was a man who worked so he could make a lot of money and retire to spend time with his family.
This sounds like it could be many of us.
He worked in his basement and developed an online [...]

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Just one phone call.
It made me stop.
Stop busying away my hours and days.
Stop wishing for balance in my “hectic” life.
Stop running through life from one task to another.
Stop measuring my day’s success by items checked off on my to-do list.
Just one phone call.
His cousin passed away earlier that day.
She was in her early 40’s.
She had [...]

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Back in the old days…
(AKA a few years ago)
It was easy for me to describe myself.
Catholic
Republican
Pro Life
Work-at-home mom or…
Stay-at-home mom or…
Working mom
Public school mom or
Homeschooling mom or
Virtual schooling mom
But things somehow at some time got all jumbled up.
I started to realize that life wasn’t so easily defined.
I started to realize that I didn’t like [...]

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There is a little girl whose smile I’ve never seen in real life.
There is a little girl whose laugh I’ve never heard.
There is a little girl whose soft, golden curls I’ve never felt.
Today I wear purple with the others who have loved this little girl we only knew online.
Today I wear purple with these others [...]

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