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Homeless Shelter's precious momentSeated in the TV room waiting for dinner when I hear ‘Rose L. please report to the kitchen.’ ‘Darn what the heck do they want now,’ is my first response. I get up from watching an old movie with a couple of other women and head to the kitchen. I’m slightly dizzy because of the hour and haven’t eaten since noon, when I had a peanut butter sandwich...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. After 11 years as a management consultant, she embarked on a new life of adventure by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. Her unlikely transformation from office worker to ocean rower, described with humor and soul-baring honesty in her blogs, captivated a worldwide audience. Roz is now...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. After 11 years as a management consultant, she embarked on a new life of adventure by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. Her unlikely transformation from office worker to ocean rower, described with humor and soul-baring honesty in her blogs, captivated a worldwide audience. Roz is now...

In 1937, Ruth Hamilton traveled to Europe to visit family in Denmark and to embark on a fact-finding mission for her radio program in the States. Decades later, she wrote about her life-changing trip in her autobiography, "The Hamilton Saga." GrowingBolder.com is bringing you exclusive excerpts from the book. In part 1, she came face-to-face with the son of a famous painter. In part...

Dear Pharmacist, I read you in my local newspaper and find your columns very interesting and refreshing in a sea of misinformation about drugs and supplements. I know you are a pharmacist, but sometimes I think you’re anti-medicine. Suzy is that true? --J.E. Gainesville, FloridaDear J.E.,No, it’s not. I’m anti “over-medicating.” I do “think outside the pill” and I feel strongly that...

As a little girl I had to grow up quick. I had a disabled mother and a father that abandoned us. Life was tough but thanks to St Margaret Mary Church and Pappas Maitland Ligget Rexall Drug store we made it and were able to stay together. I was attending St Margaret Mary School and when my father left us. They were foreclosing on our home,turning off the electric and water and phone.Thats...

Bandit's been making new friends lately, under the worst of circumstances. But you couldn't find...