Author: hylanmclaughlin

"I don't know who the Proud Boys are. I mean, you'll have to give me a definition, because I really don't know who they are." This is a direct quote…

“If you don’t love this country, get the hell out!” I have heard and read these words more in the last four years and counting than I wish. I don’t…

There once was a boy, who happened to be blind, swinging on the playground at his school. As this boy sat swinging, a few yards away another boy was making…

I have been thinking of goals recently A LOT! Goals are important in this life, without a doubt. Goals are what keep us moving forward and often provide motivation and…

These days, I gotta admit, I kinda feel helpless. I am just along for the ride. The wide-open surrounded by crazy-beautiful scenery with bald eagles soaring gracefully through an azure…

It was my very first day working as a lift operator at Winter Park Ski Resort in Colorado. I had made it through the morning and was actually making my…

The first surgery on my abdominal area happened on the first day of graduate school at Colorado State University. After missing two weeks of graduate level classes, I spent one…

The surgeon, an Army doctor with short gray hair and a rather brusque, “just the facts” manner of speaking, which (originally) did not exactly create an aura of lovability about…

This story is not so much for you as it is for me. Sorry. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. Sometimes I can be pretty selfish like that.…

There are parts of this story I have never shared with anyone. There are parts of this story that will remain unshared. First, they wouldn’t really mean anything to you.…