She doesn’t have to like him… to want him.  What do you do if you find yourself standing in the bathroom, holding a positive pregnancy test? If you’re Jessica Hensley, you take four more and schedule a blood test to follow because your life has officially gone off-script. What more could go wrong? Unfortunately for […]

You’re never too old to run away from home.  Ellie Dwyer, 61, is convinced bad luck comes in threes, and not just garden-variety, oh-well bad luck. How many people have to flee not one, but two natural disasters? And in between the wildfire and the hurricane, her husband of nearly forty years suddenly up and […]

Detroit in the 1920s proved to be the Paris of the West for many, including Catherine McIntosh and Robert Sage. These two law school students are as passionate about each other as they are their dreams. From a poor family in the neighborhood of Corktown, Catherine learned early on, the necessity of being resilient. She […]

The life-altering event… On October 23, 2000, at the age of thirty-six, Aithal experienced a massive stroke, which doctors attributed to an AVM (arteriovenous malformation) of the Pons area. He was given a fifty percent chance of survival. The stroke occurred at his Southern California home, and his wife quickly called 911, resulting in a […]