5K Walk/Run for Kids!

He patiently stood in line waiting for his running bib at our RUN4KIDS 5k Family Fun Run. I approached and asked him how I could help, “I registered to run, can you find my name?”

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Keri Krout Smith
A Product of Trauma

My grandfather was a surgeon during WWII.  The first 4 years of my mother's life were lived without her father.  When he returned, he was a different person.  He would never speak of his time in France, and never went back.  I cannot imagine the horrors he witnessed and was a part of.  

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Keri Krout Smith
For Those Who Father

Dads influence their child’s academic success, growth mindset, social/emotional growth, teen pregnancy, drug use, alcohol abuse, crime and poverty just to name a few.

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Shala Crow
FOR THOSE WHO MOTHER

Do you remember your mom’s phrase? You can remember that phrase even now that you are

grown. You remember what she looked like, how you felt, where you both were, the sights

and smells around you when that one phrase was first uttered.

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Shala Crow
A Bike

Our recent publication, The Bridge, mentioned our need for children’s bikes.  The summers you and I spent bike riding outdoors have all but disappeared. 

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Shala Crow