I grew up in suburban Pennsylvania, in a little town called Bethlehem that actually looked a lot like Southwest Wisconsin. I was surrounded by dairy farms and rolling hills. Photos by Megan Monday “My dad worked in steel and my mom stayed at home. My childhood was spent walking down my very thin country road …
“I came out to the country to get nurtured by the land.” Read More »
I was born in 1942 when Lois was quite a popular name. Photo courtesy of Dawn Davis My name is Lois Potratz and I belong to a Lois Club chapter in Wisconsin. It was founded in Minnesota, I think in 1979, but grew to have chapters all over the country. Half the states in the …
Tiffany: I grew up in a small town about 20 minutes outside of Green Bay called Luxemburg. We lived in a small trailer across the road from a farm. My mom was a bartender, so she worked nights, and my dad worked out of town a lot. Photos by Megan Monday We had a lot of babysitters …
“It was a lot of sleepless nights, waiting for the surgery that would save his life.” Read More »
https://vimeo.com/221483234/6990728d42 As a kid facing cancer, Jacob needed support from his loving family and quality care from compassionate doctors. (And a little laughter…which went a long way in helping Jacob stand up to cancer, each and every day of his battle.) The painful truth is that a healthcare crisis can come out of nowhere and …
Jacob Bravely Faced Cancer. His Wish is For All of Us. Read More »
I grew up in Hixton, Wisconsin, on my parents’ farm. My sister and brother are 20 and 21 years older than me. Photos by Megan Monday “Because my parents were older by the time they had me, my mom and dad always felt that I didn’t get the best of everything. But I never, ever …
“Our town needed better access to medical care.” Read More »
If you can stay strong, you can love endlessly. If you can love endlessly, you can change lives. What I want to portray to the world is what my father taught me: love. Photos by Megan Monday Content warning: This story contains references to suicide. “More than one million people commit suicide every year. So …
“If you can love endlessly, you can change lives.” Read More »
Steve: I’d come home and there would be a U-Haul waiting there, and I knew we were moving. There wasn’t any family discussion; we just moved. I think it was mostly around finances—better home, cheaper rent. So we lived in a lot of places around Wisconsin growing up. Photos by Megan Monday I was born in Madison, …
I was born in a refugee camp in Thailand. My people are called Hmong. We left China about 3,400 years before we settle in Laos. Most of our people were farmers. We lived in the mountains and jungles. “This is the only photo of me from the refugee camp. You can see electricity in the photo, …
Josif: My dad was basically a serial entrepreneur. He was a barber, but also a baker, a restaurateur…my parents were German immigrants and they got to be very well-known German restaurateurs. Photos by Megan Monday We moved every three years because he flipped houses. It’s crazy; he did a lot of things. But I grew up …
“She came to me with the story of her illness and asked for help…” Read More »
I’ve been in recovery a little over 14 years. I reflect back to when I was a youth and I remember there were inspirational people in my life that just dropped little seeds. When I got into recovery, those seeds started to grow. Photos by Megan Monday “Now I work with youth and people looking …
“If you want to change the world, start in your own backyard.” Read More »
