Every Community Has a Story, What's Yours?
As told to Abby Walton by Lisa Combs. Lisa’s story. She is 48. I first heard the word autism in the early 1980's while sitting in a classroom at Ball State University. I went to Ball State to study marketing, but it wasn’t really me so I went through a series of majors including deaf … [Read more...]
Meredith’s Story / 19 years old written by Megan Haynes I have faded scars. Some on my shoulder and some on my wrists. They’re not prominent, but in a certain light you can see them. I used to look at them and think: here is what I’ve done. I can go back to this self-harm, and this is always a … [Read more...]
As told to writer Cindy Baldwin I lay on the floor of my silent mobile home praying to God that there would be some way out, bargaining with Him that there would be some way I could get my kids back. I had left an abusive husband and my family a year before, moving several hundred miles from home … [Read more...]
As told to Cathy Shouse Journalist, novelist, author of Images of America Fairmount & Community Blogger for The Star Press Being 79 years old and a retired nurse, I have seen hardships over the years and have helped people whenever I could. I don’t think any of that prepared me for the … [Read more...]
Jennifer’s story written by Christine Rhine God, just let me die, I whispered. Everybody will be better off. I poured the pills into my hand and hesitated. I thought of my husband and of our daughters. All their lives they would have to live with my decision. At prom. At graduation. On their … [Read more...]
Being a mom is the most challenging job you will ever have, but at the same time the most rewarding. Before my daughter was born… I don’t know. My husband and I, we would just kind of go out to eat here or there, you know. It was Peppy O’Tools until they closed, now it’s Coyote’s. We didn’t have … [Read more...]
Karen Dowling’s story written by Annemarie Voss Karen is 41 years old I was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Ashok Inamdar, who had immigrated from India as a thirty-year-old man to pursue an engineering degree, and Kathleen, who was of Czechoslovakian descent. My parents had met in a hospital … [Read more...]
Kelly’s Story, as told to Alanna W. and Jessica N. I was seventeen the first time I got arrested. For years after that I continued to get arrested again and again, but nothing came of it until 2012. At twenty-two-years-old I was being charged with a felony. Despite this, over the next three years … [Read more...]
Deanna’s story written by WaTasha Griffin. Deanna is a pseudonym and is in 7th grade. I live in a vibrant house full of color, compassion, tolerance, and acceptance. Many people in the community know that my parents are of different races, and that my siblings each have DNA’s that … [Read more...]
About a year ago- well, a little less than a year ago, in May of last year- there was this new cadet on patrol and he was just about to graduate cadet school. He was in the car with another patrolman, coincidentally whose father I worked with in the Sheriff’s department. Well, both of them were hit … [Read more...]
