She still has her Under Armour knee pads on from volleyball camp, while she asked, “Can I make a ramp?” She peddles her older sisters five-speed around the property. She grew out of her smaller one, and loves sitting higher, peddling faster, rising to challenges while fully embracing life. All the while, a war rages. Battles […]
What A True Hero Looks Like on 911
My husband sits at a military base in Washington. I talk to him on the phone. The military men and women stand, in full attire, guns in hand, bullet proof vests trying to defend our land. And have we forgotten the price of freedom? Â Have we forgotten many died so you and I could live in […]
When it’s Time to “Take Your Freedom”.
It’s like a wave of grief swells involuntarily in me as my nine-year-old clings to the book we are reading… Addy, an American Girl, was something I wouldn’t let my brown skinned daughter read on her own. It’s about a young child entrenched in a war for her freedom; beaten, made to eat worms. Her father and […]