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I am incredibly proud of winning one of the AC People's Media Awards for 2007 for my content: How My Husband's Stroke Changed My Life. When the e-mail came notifying me of this honor I thought it was a practical joke or a phishing....

Since the age of three, I've had to live with a stutter. It's not as bad as others I've heard, but it's still been a challenge.

Editorial about flying in a small plane

Springsteen once sang, "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?" A recent dream in which I died has me pondering this quote and other dream-related matters.

Native Americans have a long and illustrious heritage, but I have seen that the changing of the millennium may have changed the views that go with this ethnicity. How do I know? I am one.....

The poor have to create their own opportunities to advance there lives. They have to be willing and motivated and have an honest desire to want to improve their situation. This is why the poor remain poor.

I have been on welfare before. I have been as they deem self sufficient. I am tired of "tax payers" saying we don't have a right for any form of assistance.

Because there is no clear cause and no way to test for it, chronic fatigue syndrome is difficult to diagnose, and sometimes patients are even labeled hypochondriacs by their doctors.

Picture more of a lonely life where it is you and your children 90 percent of the time. Your husband is always either on his way to an emergency or coming back from one.

Skydiving in Oahu is one of the scariest things I have ever done. Also one of the most worthwhile. I went with friends. Some provided moral support; one provided laughs at her own expense.

I am a survivor of an electrical injury. I have always known this, but because I walked away from the incident unharmed, it never occurred to me to look into the aftermath of electrical injury as a possible cause of all my problems.