People like me are either targeted or don’t survive, but a little girl with a genetic abnormality saved my life. I was born on November 4, 1977, in Moundridge, Kansas. I am the fourth in line of five boys born and raised by my parents. While my mom’s pregnancy with me was no different than […]
I met the twin’s dad (TD) in July of 2016 at my job. We worked in the same field for the Federal Government. I had a boyfriend at the time who is now my ex, and I was expecting a platonic working relationship with TD. I happened to mention to TD that I was going to […]
Sadly in this world a stigma exists which is to me a kind of fear mixed with superstition – a wanting to hold the stigmatized person at arms-length or even ostracize them for fear of having whatever “tainted them” rub off on you. Rape victims have often been treated this way. Sexual assault is a […]
My story starts as a child, a child who would have had a much different life if I would have followed God’s word as I was taught. Instead, I chose to follow temptations and went down a long windy road of heartache, loss, and consequences. I was raised in a Christian home, growing up with […]
Many people don’t understand how rape victims process their experiences, including acknowledging the rape, reporting the crime, handling a resulting pregnancy and how we love our children despite the way they were conceived. I’ve been silent for a long time due to the way the military handled everything after I reported the rape, and I’m […]
The year 2020 in hindsight will show us our blind side. Something we couldn’t envision — how a novel virus brought us division. Told to remain 6 feet apart — social distancing was to be the start to keep others from going 6 feet under. But now, we all have to wonder: will all of […]
As a military wife, I’d been through my husband being deployed to Afghanistan as I cared for our young daughter. We have always been very patriotic, loved our country, and so we made a sacrifice to serve the nation we love. It was quite a challenge for us, but for both my husband and I, […]
My experiences with crisis pregnancies have made me adamantly pro-life, with a perspective I could never have imagined. I got pregnant at 16 by my 18 year old boyfriend when I ran away from home; I got life-threateningly pregnant again at 22 by my abusive addict boyfriend; and I got pregnant at 24 by a […]
Hollywood actress Ashley Judd has been known for her vocal support of abortion, but her more recent rhetoric is even more troubling to me because I was conceived in rape and also became pregnant with my now 2-year-old when I was gang-raped,. At the 2019 Women in the World Summit in New York, Judd told […]
“Is Kristi pregnant?” . . . .That was never a question I expected my pastor and friend to ever ask me over the phone on a Sunday afternoon after we arrived home from church the morning of April 22nd, 2018. I thought, if my 18 year old daughter was pregnant, he would have heard it […]