“A 5-day old baby was placed into my arms. I was only 22 years old but, at that moment, my life as I knew it changed. I fell in love.”
- Love What Matters
- Heroes
“A 5-day old baby was placed into my arms. I was only 22 years old but, at that moment, my life as I knew it changed. I fell in love.”
“Every teacher you know thinks it can happen, so they pray it doesn’t.”
“As an army veteran and security professional, it seemed selfish of me to not offer the parents of my own community peace of mind and the same type of services I would total strangers.”
“He gave me this long, confused, why-would-a-grown-human-do-anything-they-didn’t-want-to-do look like he’d really found some hole in the plot of my life. ‘Because visiting this place isn’t about me. It’s about your mom, and I love her.'”
“He gave me back the second half of my childhood. He gave me the safety I had never known. My life wouldn’t look at all like it does without him.”
“I’m here to tell you to never hesitate to put your restaurant experience on your resume. Bold it. Underline it. Put it in bright red.”
“Just when you think that people are forgetting, just when you think your loved ones legacy is quieting down, just when you think they don’t know their name…they do. And it’s probably one of the best feelings in the world.”
“Two years ago, my three-year-old daughter, Mila, looked at me with sadness and asked, ‘Mommy, why doesn’t anyone in my books have cochlear implants, like me?’ My heart sank. I knew I had to do something about the lack of hearing representation. Because if I didn’t, then who would?”
“I’m going to miss your consistent, stable presence in their lives through the uncertainty of so many hard and scary times. I’m going to miss knowing they’re in the absolute best hands while they’re away from me. There’s just no other way to say this—I’m going to miss you so much.”
“These are the people I handed my children to as babies, and toddlers, and preschoolers, and the people who looked at me with reassuring eyes when I needed it most.”