Our Voices Magazine

By Pattie Sadler Because of the pain I felt from losing my children and my sanity, I fell into a series of sad events that seemed to...

Memorial Day 2021 - Jeremy Finlay reminisces about and honors his grandfather, Robert J Reese.

By Louise Stivers Age is an act in this play we call life. For many of us, a New Year is not a time for making resolutions, but rather a...

Pattie Sadler Since I had suffered through a drug addiction that lasted 22 years, I not only had to move away and get clean from all the...

Kimberly Thorson Rundles Twosock stopped and looked at me. His long eyelashes brushed his cheeks and he softly grunted. Dropping the...

Amora Freeman-Floyd We do not always actively choose change. Sometimes forces beyond our control inflict change upon us and we are...

Hayley White Bell I was done hiding in the shadows of my depression, allowing it to rule my life. I was no longer going to let my day be...

By Megan Hutchins For me, the idea of not doing double diapers, breastfeeding all hours of the night and sleeping in sounded marvelous...

Lynn DeBuhr Johnson ...to live life on a daily basis fully congruent with who you know you are capable of being, and to have a powerful...

Kourtney Rieder That people-pleaser was nothing more than a mask, one I had put on long ago. In search of acceptance, I was conditioned...

By Susan Elaine "We truly never know what people are going through. Sometimes, a hard exterior is their way of protecting themselves and...

By Kimberly Thorson Rundles "Life is truly found in lacing up and getting out there. Again and again and again. Trying, falling, getting...

By Joseph Leavitt "Fast forward a few years to a blind date where I indeed met the love of my life, Andrea. I did tell my dear friend who...

By Sue Reese Finlay "Nobody forced me to eat that entire giant bag of M&M’s or that gallon of ice cream; that fourth cup of hot chocolate...

By David Gregory Pihl "Along the way, she drove through every town that had a decent apothecary so she could buy fuel. The chemist’s shop...

By Mary Ellen Reese Loose "As the years went by and wonderful opportunities came my way, I realized I would not have come to this point...

By Christy Neider "I wouldn’t say I’m restless. I just wonder a lot. And the wondering creates change as I seek." I was once an animal...

By Pattie Sadler "I believe that playing small does not serve anyone, least of all ourselves. We were created to create. We were meant to...

By Megan Hutchins "I had a desire, a creative desire, that needed attention. I did not know how to accomplish fulfilling this desire but...

By Louise Stivers Aunt Ruth was smoking a pipe. A woman smoking a pipe! I knew from movies that women sometimes smoked cigarettes - but a...