“We don’t realize just how meaningful a pair of combat boots by the door really are.”
‘I had absolutely no idea that was the last morning I would ever clean up after him.’
It Is Not Your Job To Be A Decoration At The Beach
“I got the idea to do this project after being inundated with multiple ads every day enticing me with photos and emojis and offers to buy their product to get a ‘beach body’ or ‘bikini body’ or ‘summer body.'”
‘One day, I finally broke. I locked myself in the bathroom and cried alone until my eyes would barely open.’
“Maybe this is just what it’s like to have three kids,” I thought. “Maybe this is my new normal.”
‘I was killing myself. I didn’t want to die’: Man loses 140 POUNDS naturally after confronting his ‘addictive personality’
“I made an appointment to have a physical done. When I saw my lab results, I knew I was in trouble.”
‘I knew I had to capture her before it was too late.’: Daughter photographs dying mother in wake of family’s ‘tremendous loss 6 months prior’
“You don’t realize how silent a room can be when one person stops breathing… it’s deafening.”
‘She said, ‘That IS you, and when you wake up, that’s what you’ll do.’: Spider-Man visits 10,000 sick children when they need him most
“The hospital said I couldn’t visit him, but the child’s mother asked me, ‘Do you work for the hospital? Or God?’ That question stopped me in my tracks. That led me to visiting my first child ever, by sneaking my suit in my backpack, changing in a bathroom close to his room, and rushing to his side.”
‘I fell to the floor and screamed’: Daughter rushes to marry in dad’s hospital room ‘while he was still with us’ after brain stroke
“I told him Taylor and I were finally married and that I knew he would be proud. At that point, I knew my dad wasn’t coming back.”
‘Lupus has given me the most self-confidence I’ve ever had.’
“I would wake up early in the morning with excruciating wrist pain, often so bad I couldn’t even lift myself out of bed.”
‘It’s been an absolute battle to get them to take their antibiotics. What he doesn’t know won’t hurt him.’: Mom tries parenting hack, ‘There’s no recipe for parenting’
“We all know how frustrating it can be. You want nothing but for your child to get better! I knew I had to try this method but somehow disguise it.”
‘Something lights up inside Grandma when she sings. For a moment, she’s her old self.’: Dementia-stricken grandma shares ‘most treasured memory’ with granddaughter through music
“There’s something spiritual about hearing my grandmother sing. The short half hour in my backyard with my grandmother will forever be my favorite.”