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Nine Years and Counting

Sep 29th 2016

I stopped drinking. I will celebrate9 years in November. I am grateful to be alive and healthy. I do not take my life for granted because of my struggles. I am very thankful. …

I Am Now A Care Taker

Jul 22nd 2016

My mother and I both have Huntington's disease. She's 64, in the later stages slowly deteriorating by the day, week, month. Whatever pace it chooses for itself.I am 40 and FIGHTING BACK with lions mane mushroom, coconut oil, cannabis, AND LOVE. A bottomless bucket of love.  …

One Person Show

Posted by Mical Trejo and Rachel Smith on Sep 3rd 2013

                     Mical is a dear friend of mine. It wasn’t always that way, just a recent discovery. By recent, 6 months but little did I know, it was a year and half in the making. It all started when I joined Dane’s Body Shop. After a …

Power To Be Me

Posted by Chef Raja on Jul 9th 2013

          While processing orders for Pride Socks, I came across Chef Raja’s order and for some reason, it had an impact on me. There was nothing special about his order, just a single pair of low cut socks. After putting it together, I thought to myself, I wonder if …

Powered With Pride

Posted by Rachel Smith on Jul 2nd 2013

It all started last August when we were vendors at Chicago Market Days and Keith LaBelle approached us with an idea. Months later, I received a follow up email from Ketih and months later, the ball started rolling; ‘Powered with Pride 5k’ in Louisville, KY was born! I was in love with the idea, a …

Proud Mother

Posted by Sister Dottie S. Dixon on Jun 4th 2013

               I met Sister Dottie Dixon a couple years ago at Salt Lake City Pride and I was instantly drawn in by her energy. It all began when I was searching google images for Utah Pride and happened upon Dottie’s images and I could not contain myself. H …

Births Of My Beautiful Creations

Posted by Adrienne Smith on May 2nd 2013

                                     This month’s featured story is personal to me and I am ecstatic to share it with you. Adrienne’s story, otherwise known as my baby sister, gave birth to both of her so …

Getting Through My Life

Posted by Van Curaza and Rachel Smith on Mar 5th 2013

I was flying back to Austin from Seattle when I opened Spirit, Southwest Airlines Magazine. I was flipping through it until a photo of a guy on a surfboard caught my eye. It was then my gut told me to read the story. And WOW is all I can say. The story is about Van Curaza, a 50 year old former p …

Becoming The Man I Am Today.

Posted by Eli Espinoza and Rachel Smith on Feb 4th 2013

I met Eli about a year and half ago while volunteering with my classroom at Habitat for Humanity Restore. We volunteered once a week and Eli was designated to work and assign us jobs. Immediately the kids fell in love with him. He had a natural way of working with the kids and getting them to see …

My Journey To Happiness

Posted by Sara Brown and Rachel Smith on Jan 1st 2013

My name is Sara Bown and I live in New Brunswick Canada. I have been married to a man I adore and consider my best friend for 13 years and we are blessed with two sons who are 6 & 10. Being a proud mother, I have so many proud moments. Like the seasons change, I think we have beautiful proud moments …