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    Melanie Nicholas
    • Nov 26, 2017
    • 4 min

    Aggie Spirit mirrors Holy Spirit: Remember the 12

    by Melanie Nicholas 1996 Texas A&M Bonfire file photo, photo credit The Eagle newspaper. Each year around Thanksgiving, I take time to...

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • Apr 15, 2017
    • 3 min

    Son reminds me how we can live as Easter people

    Parker, 8 Easter blessings! This is one of my favorite holidays, and not just because of the outfits and the candy. Easter is one of my...

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • Apr 4, 2017
    • 3 min

    A case of mistaken identity reminds me to shine

    Melanie Nichols Melanie Nicholas by Melanie Nicholas I was working late a few nights ago when I received a strange Facebook message. The...

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • Dec 25, 2016
    • 3 min

    Grief makes it hard to find joy during Christmas

    My Marley girl Christmas is supposed to be perfect, joyous, celebratory. But I haven’t been feeling it the last few weeks. My tree is...

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • Aug 26, 2016
    • 4 min

    Grief Survival: Look for the clear days

    By Melissa Moore Melissa Moore and Greyson Moore When our youngest son, Greyson, went into the hospital, lots of things became...

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • Feb 13, 2016
    • 5 min

    My sweet Milo: Preparing for the inevitable

    My first baby, Milo Aaron Nicholas. He thinks he’s a cat. The Hubs and I hadn’t been married very long when I dragged him into PetsMart...

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • Sep 15, 2015
    • 1 min

    I am ‘enough’

    By guest blogger Angela Glenn I am enough, and so are you. In honor of Suicide Awareness I wanted to share why I got my wrist tattoo. I...

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • Sep 10, 2015
    • 1 min

    Suicide Prevention Week: You are loved beyond measure

    Uncle David and sweet baby Cole. By Uncle David Nicholas It has been 101 days and 100 nights since my nephew, Cole Austin left us. 101...

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • Jul 5, 2015
    • 4 min

    Sweet boy, I wish I had all the answers

    Image taken from diatribe.org I have really been struggling this month. There are so many questions I just don’t have the answers for...

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • Jun 4, 2015
    • 4 min

    About a boy: See you on the other side my sweet Cole Austin

    “If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever.” — Saya Nelson Cole, learning to ride a four-wheeler in the mountains of New...

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • May 31, 2015
    • 1 min

    #MotherLove

    Bathwater blogger Rachel Austin with her son, Cole. Please pray for a miracle for Cole and for peace and strength for my sister,...

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • Aug 14, 2014
    • 3 min

    Like father, like daughter

    I am my father’s daughter. No statement could make me more proud. I adored him, and he was my favorite person in the whole world. My life...

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • Jun 29, 2014
    • 3 min

    3 sizes too small? Mack Daddy gets a triple bypass

    So I started to write about patience and children. I have a sweet friend struggling with teaching her 2-year-old to wait a gosh-darned...

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • May 29, 2014
    • 3 min

    MS won’t make me give up hope

    When I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2004, I thought my life was over. Hubs and I hadn’t been married long, and we didn’t have...

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • May 28, 2014
    • 1 min

    World MS Day & Maya

    I think her poem “And Still I Rise” captures the spirit of the thousands and thousands of us suffering with multiple sclerosis. It won’t...

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • May 4, 2014
    • 5 min

    My mouth is full of warm cocoa and Coca Cola and Fla-Vor-Ice

    ‘Ohhh. Who’s that pretty lady, Mommy?’ That, Bodacious, is my Mamo, your great-grandmother. And she would have adored you and made you...

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • Feb 7, 2014
    • 3 min

    ‘Heaven is for Real’ doesn’t comfort this grieving dad

    Papa Cecil “Heaven is for Real” is a wretched book. I’m not one to advocate book burning, though in this case, I might make an exception....

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    Melanie Nicholas
    • Oct 11, 2013
    • 4 min

    Small talk about big things

    Austin holds his sons Tucker, left, and Greyson, right. Greyson, the little Lion Man, died when he was six months old. I can’t tell you...

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