Transformation journey goal: Be Free
“I’m on a transformation journey. I recently got divorced. I have two wonderful kids. And I realized it’s important for me to become more in tune with who I am. “Leaving a relationship to focus on...
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Young writer gets lots of encouragement from dad
“I see the question all the time: what do you want to be when you grow up? But I tell my son, that’s the wrong question. It should be: what do you want to be now?...
Poetry emerges from heartbreaking loss
“I was 26 years old. It was my first pregnancy. I was healthy. I was athletic. Then it just happened. They told me, ‘Your cervix is gone.’ I had what’s called an incompetent cervix. It can...
‘Down the Rabbit Hole’
“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.” — Lewis Carroll “For me, it all began with the thought of a rabbit: Alice’s...
Britney Brown: first-time author hopes to inspire others
NameBritney Brown Age30 How long have you lived in Baytown?Eight months Most interesting fact about youI can remix any song on the spot. BackgroundI was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, but raised in so many different places....
Medical response dog watching for falls
“We had three senior dogs, and we lost all of them because they were just at that age. One of them, Pablo, was a medical response dog. I trained him because I have two brain aneurysms....
Poetry reflects emotional roller coaster ride
Overwhelmed by the daily COVID-19 updates, the stresses of four adults living together in a pandemic, and five pets beneath our feet, I am doing a lot of self-therapy with ink, specifically poetry. Poetry is my...
Poem about lost pets becomes children’s book
“I love animals. If I see a lost dog or cat on the side of the road, I’m like, ‘Oh, you poor thing. I can’t keep you, but I’ll shelter you for a couple days until...
She’s surrounded by a family of caregivers
“Everyone in my immediate family, except for me and one of my older brothers, is in health care. My mother has been a nurse for the elderly for 50-plus years. My two older sisters are nurses....
A voice for women who endure abuse in the military
“It began in college. I had a class called Sex and Gender in Latin America. It was talking about the machismo culture and what women in those countries are going through, not really being protected or...
