“This man then goes on to mumble homophobic slurs to me, the whole time I’m waiting in line. I ignore him, pay for my food, and start to walk away. I then notice his card gets declined.”
‘I was standing in line. An older gentleman said, ‘Why are you wearing that rainbow shirt? Are you some sort of fa***t?’
‘When I was young, I would’ve seen these tweezers and thought, ‘They are cute. I’m going to buy them just because.’ As an adult, I’m buying them because I caught a glimpse of a chin hair.”
“Getting older is fun, kids. You can do whatever you want, when you want, like scrub toilets and pay bills and fold laundry on Friday nights like a boss.”
‘We had a family movie night. Well, let me take that back. My family had a movie night, while I sat on the floor trying to match the right lids to the right markers and put books back into bins.’
“Then I got up and made brownies, because I felt like brownies would make my family happy. Then I did the dishes because, well, I felt like I needed to do the dishes. Then I served everyone the brownies. Then I waited and collected their dirty brownie dishes.”
‘I got a call from a reporter asking about my ‘Autistic kid’ today. Honestly, I made the same word choices before I had her. It used to make me angry.’
“Audrey isn’t an Autistic kid. Audrey HAS Autism. Autism shouldn’t be an adjective. It’s a noun. It’s a medical diagnosis. It is not the defining descriptor of my child.”
‘A man stepped out of the shadows where I was walking. He was wearing baggy, dirty clothes and old shoes. I took a step backward, looked into his eyes and said hello.’
“I was telling myself if he asked for money I could honestly tell him I had none, and keep walking. But instead of asking for money, he looked back into my eyes, and asked for something else.”
‘For a brief second, I thought this was the same old hustle where a homeless guy just wants money for drugs.’
“I could see in this man’s eyes and humble demeanor he was serious.”
‘Most days I feel like the food slave. There’s got to be a better way to do this’: Mom creates genius hack to keep her kids’ meals on schedule
“I decided to pay attention to how many times my kids actually asked for food. 97 times. Between the five of them, they asked me 97 times for food.”
‘The scale said ‘error,’ which meant I was heavier than 375 pounds’: Man loses 180 pounds eating ‘junk food’ every day
“My biggest motivation came from watching the numbers on the scale drop, even though I was eating all the food I loved to eat. I was doing the impossible.”
How An Episode Of ‘Chopped Junior’ Changed The Way I Parent
“I sat there wondering how in the world kids so young could be so skilled and knowledgeable in the kitchen. And then I had an epiphany.”
‘Oh my gosh I’m going to die’: Woman saves her own life with stunning, 231 pound weight loss transformation
“I never thought I would go from 356 pounds to 125 pounds.”
