Meet Kadi Stunz: Texas Strong Woman of the Month
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Meet Kadi Stunz: Texas Strong Woman of the Month

This month’s lovely, fierce and talented Texas Strong Woman of the Month is wife, photographer, and mental health warrior Kadi Stunz. Meet Kadi Stunz Originally from Lubbock, Kadi currently lives in McKinney with her husband Jakeb. She is the owner of Kadi Dawn Photography and founder of Of Lions & Lace, a faith-based community for…

Love Always Perseveres: 31 Days of Marriage Guest Post
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Love Always Perseveres: 31 Days of Marriage Guest Post

“It [love] … always hopes, always perseveres.” (1 Corinthians 13:7 NIV) We have our first kiss. We fall in love. We say our vows. And then, we find out that all that “in sickness and in health, ‘til death do us part” stuff is for real. We fight depression and “man” colds, job losses and…

Meet Cristina White-Jones: Texas Strong Woman of the Month
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Meet Cristina White-Jones: Texas Strong Woman of the Month

I am pleased to introduce you to the first Texas Strong Woman of the Month for 2017, Cristina White-Jones–an incredible mixed media artist and teacher, who happens to be my Buda neighbor. Meet Cristina White-Jones I met Cristina last summer when my young daughters began attending her fun and creative art classes at a local…

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Meet Shelly Spillmann: Texas Strong Woman of the Month

This month’s Texas Strong Woman of the Month is daughter, wife, sister, aunt, small town girl, and philanthropist Shelly Spillmann. Meet Shelly Spillmann I met Shelly Spillmann last year, just a few months before she married my college roommate’s older brother. He is in some ways like an older brother to me, as well. I was immediately taken…

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How ‘To Joey, with Love’ is Helping Me Make Peace with My Grief

It seems like I’ve spent the last 10+ years in a perpetual state of grief and caregiving, coming up for air just briefly enough to survive and then going back under again. When I was offered an opportunity to review an advanced screening of To Joey, With Love, I knew basically what I was getting…