Seven years ago, on a Thanksgiving weekend, Robin Carpenter and her husband did what so many families do—they drove twelve hours to see their son, Kyle. Kyle wasn’t busy preparing turkey, or pulling pies out of the oven, or whatever kids do when their parents visit on a holiday weekend. He was flying in from Germany, and they would be waiting for him… at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Maryland. This Veteran’s Day, as we commemorate our… Keep Reading
Young Woman Raises $100K Running for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
When Kyllian Warman’s father was diagnosed with cancer when she was just a high school freshman, her family, determined to have her father see her graduate high school, fought the disease with all their might. But while treatments may have failed him, Kyllian did not. Using running as “her therapy, and medicine” to see her through the tough times, at the beginning of 2012, Kyllian vowed to run 2012 miles. And she did. And she hasn’t stopped since. Then, after… Keep Reading