by Amanda West | Jul 18, 2024 | Stories
THE MOTTO, “Nobody cares. Work harder!” — made popular by podcast host, author, and endurance trainer Cameron Hanes — may sound harsh to some, but to Jon Bradford, those words were the motivation he needed two years ago to finally seize control of his health. He’s now...
by Amanda West | Jun 15, 2024 | Stories
THE STATUE of Liberty has remained a symbol of hope in New York Harbor since France gave it to our country to commemorate our allegiance to one another during the American Revolution. The statue on Liberty Island is just a short ferry ride from the famous immigration...
by Amanda West | Jun 15, 2024 | Stories
THUNDER RATTLED every window in Kathy’s car. Lightning streaked across the blackening clouds above the back roads of Lincoln County. She gripped her steering wheel and leaned closer to the windshield, squinting. The wipers whacked back and forth. Where were the lines...
by Amanda West | Nov 1, 2022 | Stories
HELPING PREGNANT women has been woven into the fabric of Amanda Curtis’s life. During the 1980s, both her mother and her aunt served as pregnancy help counselors, and in the early 2000s her father co-founded a nonprofit in Nashville that provided ultrasound equipment...
by Amanda West | Nov 1, 2022 | Stories
THE GHOST of Christmas Past from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” whisked Ebenezer Scrooge back through the ages of time where together they viewed reminders of his greatest triumphs and his most bitter tragedies. When faced with these stark reminders, Scrooge was...
