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None of us are exempt from encountering trials and tribulations in this world. We are not living in paradise, utopia or seventh heaven. Though personal contentment is plausible, it gets interrupted when the unexpected occurs.      The Greatest Disruption Though my life as a kid was not perfect the imperfections were tolerable because my…

Whenever I walk through cemeteries, I always note the person’s birth date as well as their date of death. I like to know how long a person lived. Then, I wonder, especially about the short lived lives, how exactly they died.  For me, a person’s death is very much a part of their life’s story. …

I was born to Paul and Darlene Macek. I was their sixth child as well as their fourth born daughter. As I grew up in the family, I began noticing and relishing that there were certain privileges that accompanied the status as being my father’s daughter.  Benefits The first job I remember Dad as having…

As a suicide survivor, and an adult child of an alcoholic, I know how to survive. I self-taught myself how to weather the storms early on in my life because of our frequent moves. By the time I was in seventh grade,we’d moved from Nebraska to South Dakota, from South Dakota to Colorado and then…