Author Archives: Jack

My husband and I are in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and we extended our stay from Brandon, Florida to avoid hurricane Irma. As we were headed to lunch at The Old Mill restaurant, all the lights in our dash came on, from airbags to tire pressure. After We shut the car off, it wouldn’t turn on […]

My daughter is 12 years old. She doesn’t have many friends, and last year, the bullying at school got so bad I’d find her hiding in the bathroom during lunch. So she spends most of her time with me, watching me fill orders for my Tedooo app shop. She’s been quietly taking my yarn for […]

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart. ~Bruce […]

On May 18, 1980, a powerful magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook the depths beneath Mount St. Helens in Washington, triggering the largest landslide ever recorded. The mountain’s north face collapsed in a breathtaking instant, unleashing a supersonic blast of ash, hot gas, and rock that flattened 230 square miles of forest in seconds. The eruption sent […]

“Only 40% of women who have children in their teens graduate high school. Today, I proudly joined that 40%.” Three years ago, I thought I was too cool for school and dropped out. A few months later, I became pregnant at 17 — and people were quick to say I’d be nothing more than a […]