The Resilient
College and a New Career After 50
For years through my volunteer work, I knew I had a calling to work with people suffering from substance abuse and mental illness. Because of my life circumstances and responsibilities, it took a while to…
Grateful Every Day
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” My life has been a story of highs and lows. What I’ve learned is that while you can’t control what happens, what you can…
Overcoming Tragedy To Realize Her Dream of Motherhood
I grew up in suburban Middletown, New Jersey, one of four siblings born into a strict, working class Catholic family. After graduating from Kean College, I began a successful sales career at MCI and for…
Anxiety Would Not Defeat Me.
I absolutely believe we are more alike than we are different. We all have a story and your story may not be my story, but mine is just different in the details. It is through…
Turning Obstacles into Opportunities!
The Never-Ending Divorce My ex-husband was abusive shortly after we married in 1988. I never thought abuse happened to women like me; well educated, living on the upper East Side of New York City, married…
Against All Odds: The Triumph of Christine Carter Love
Marguerite Grace King was a domestic worker from the deep South who cleaned office buildings for a living. For many, this meager job was merely an income, but for me, the long corridors of the…
A husband’s legacy lives on helping families and kids deal with loss and grief.
When I met David, the love of my life, he said something very startling to me. He told me he didn’t think he would live past age 40. His words turned out to be prophetic….
Saving My Son from Addiction Changed the Lives of Others
Looking back, the worst day of my life was also the day that began the journey of getting my son back. My drug addicted son, Daniel, had spiraled out of control and was in trouble,…
From Occupied Poland to Asbury Park, NJ – An Author is Born at 80
I begin my book, Goat in the Attic, with a note about my Mamusia, Aunt Katherine. . . As a child, I always thought Aunt Katherine was my Mother. I called her Mamusia, in Polish…
On a Mission to Help Survivors of Violent Crimes.
I’ve lived in Monmouth County, New Jersey, my entire life. My daughter, Kiersten, was born the day after I turned 20. I was young, single and unprepared but I had a lot of support from…
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