She Believed She Could
She Believed She Could Fight Cancer At Age 39
Breast Cancer Awareness month is October. Before 2014, I bought bagels and shopped special weekends in October so some of the proceeds would go to the women dealing with the disease. I thought I was doing my part. Now it hits much deeper and harder, as one of my...
read moreShe Believed She Could Help her Son Face and Fight Cancer
You know that feeling we have when someone we love gets hurt? The desire to take their pain away... The willingness to take it upon ourselves if necessary... The need to reassure them that it will all be ok soon... These are feelings that almost every parent...
read moreShe Believed She Could Forgive the Unforgivable
Sometimes life happens just like an amazing song: you meet a guy when you're in 7th grade and think he's "cute". Turns out, he thinks you're pretty cute too and you start a sweet middle school friendship. Then, when you're 14 and 15 you start dating, and finally get...
read moreShe Believed She Could: Help Girls ‘Dream with All Their Hearts’
There are sooo many wonderful groups making life better for people in our area. But there’s one that you may not have heard about yet – and it's making a big difference in the lives of girls in Neosho. Over the past year I've gotten to know one of our local news...
read moreShe Believed She Could Have Hope After She Lost Her Husband At 36
Being a wife and mom was all that Holly Wampler had wanted to do. It was her dream, just like it was for many of us 40- somethings. The easy bake ovens and cabbage patch kids were preparing us for something greater, and we knew it. Holly met Chad Wampler at MSSU at...
read moreShe Believed She Could… Create Change for Women in Haiti
Our world consumes so much news and information through quick images and words (Instagram, Facebook, 24-hour-news cycles) — and so much of it is negative or snarky or just plain wrong. So it’s been on my heart for a while to find a way to tell the stories of people I...
read moreShe believed she could…face a life-threatening illness
Do you ever watch the news show CBS Sunday Morning? Probably not. My kids say it’s for old people. But what I love about CBS Sunday Morning is they tell real, in-depth news stories - as in, they can last a whole 10 or 15 minutes. They profile cool places or inspiring...
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