by Strength Through the Struggle | May 31, 2015 | Blog
A powerful storm blew into northeast Ohio off of Lake Erie on July 4, 1969. We watched the skies become ominous out over the water and the idea of seeing a tornado seemed vey exciting until cooler heads prevailed and stern directives were issued by the adults for all...
by Strength Through the Struggle | May 28, 2015 | Blog
Josh’s Speech Therapist was always so caring and patient with Joshua. She encouraged and stimulated him daily to try to open his mouth, move his tongue, purse his lips. Anything that would bring him one step closer to being able talk and eat again. She did this...
by Strength Through the Struggle | May 25, 2015 | Blog
The first time I held my newborn son I wept and I could not stop. The love I felt inside came out in tears and quiet sobs. I couldn’t contain the emotions I felt or find a single word to express myself. I was overwhelmed and the tears poured forth like a mountain...
by Strength Through the Struggle | May 25, 2015 | Blog
I don’t know how to juggle. But sometimes, life feels to me like what I imagine it is to learn how to juggle. Lots of things going on at once. Plenty of things being dropped – sometimes all together. Getting hit in the head with a bowling pin. Narrowly avoiding...
by Strength Through the Struggle | May 24, 2015 | Blog
T’S NOT LIKE ON T.V. Being in a coma in real life is nothing like the way, at times, it is portrayed in movies, on television or in a book of fiction with their simplified and miraculous versions of healing. At least our experience wasn’t that way. Joshua was...
by Strength Through the Struggle | May 23, 2015 | Blog
My initiation into the combat arts started all the way back in kindergarten. There, a boy named Paul who was bigger than any of the rest of us kids was bullying another child. This wasn’t the first time I had witnessed Paul doing this. He had been picking on one...
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