Extreme Training

   It’s that time of year to start thinking about a training plan for your summer or fall race.  Training for a race can often be extreme… like, going out on a 20 mile run on a Saturday morning … or, swimming a mile and then jumping on your bike for...

The Whole Body

I am not a very fast typist. However, to my children (ages 10 and 8) I am a superstar typist. When my children walk into the room and I am working on my computer they usually comment on how fast my fingers are moving on the keyboard.  They are amazed at the clicking...

The Extremes of Life – April 2012

Many of us would prefer a life that is not subject to extremes, yet some of us cannot avoid extremes, even if we try. When I was 5 my father was diagnosed with leukemia. This was one of life’s extremes that everyone in my family would have changed at the time if we...

Meet the Heinzelmans

The Heinzelman family attended Inheritance of Hope’s first Legacy Retreat, which took place at Lake George, New York, in the summer of 2008. Three and a half years later, the family has fond memories of the weekend. Yet the Heinzelmans are getting by without...

A Kiss of Kindness

“Kind hearts are quietly kind. They let the car cut into traffic and the young mom with three kids move up in the checkout line. They pick up the neighbor’s trashcan that rolled into the street.” It really is the little things in life that mean so...

Tides and Waves

I just spent a few days at the beach with my family for Spring Break. It was wonderful! My parents recently moved into a condo that overlooks the Atlantic Ocean and I really enjoyed standing out on their balcony and listening to the waves come in and out constantly....

Traditions Tell a Story

I’ve noticed something about myself over the past few years since I’ve become a mom. I view traditions in my family in many different ways than I used to, especially ones around holidays of special significance for us. It’s like I view them through...

Meet the Grahams

Imagine pinching your nose shut and breathing only through a coffee straw. “It feels like you have asthma and emphysema,” said M’Leigha Graham. The average human trachea, the windpipe that carries air to the lungs, is 15-20 millimeters wide. When...