my grandma is one truly amazing woman! she gives me such powerful insight to everything in the world. i admire and treasure the time we get to spend with each other. she inspires me each and everyday & i love her so much for that.

my grandmother was/is the most important person in my entire life. she is beautiful, loving, and very special to everyone. i miss her more than anyone can imagine. but i know she is looking down and smiling. You’ll always be in my heart nanny youll tell me stories again soon. love you.

To my best friend of 27 years, Emily Tauffer. She’s a resilient superwoman! Raising four brilliant children, inspiring the middle school kids she teaches and being one of the most loving and generous women I know. As busy as she is, she’s still finding time to raise big $ for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Teams in Training event. She can do it all!

Thanks for making our musicale possible!

“It was about honor, courage and patriotism…about doing the right thing for the right reason. These women lived it”.

Sixty-five years after she served as one of the Women’s Airforce service pilots, Edith Smith received the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation’s highest civilian honor in the nation’s Capitol on March 10, 2010. Ede and the surviving WASP are a group of trailblazing WW II female pilots who had the same training as men. In her own words,”We had to buy our own uniforms…there were no military honors, no commissions, but we did what we intended to do”. Her inspiration was Amelia Earhart who was flying when she was in high school. Ede earned her pilot’s license at age eighteen and paid for her way to Sweetwater, Texas when she was selected to train as a pilot.

I met Ede through my business and she has become my friend, mentor and heroine. She belongs to a computer club, enjoys digital photography, exercises at Curves, is learning spanish through Rosetta Stone while studying the bible as literature.

Edith Smith is a living legacy of what women can achieve and is an inspiration for girls and women everywhere!

In honor of Mary Kohn Lazarus and her birthday of the fourth power May 2. I’m so glad that you married my “Unkie” when I was a toddler and I’m a lucky adult to have you as my role model, confidante, and lunch date. When are we getting together next?

To my beautiful and brilliant little girl Lina who reminds me every day that when a mother raises a daughter with self esteem, self respect, a good education, and a sense of honor the entire planet is changed for the better.

I feel so blessed to have a close relationship with my mom, whom I admire and respect more than words can express. She has always put the needs of our family before her own, while still accomplishing her education and career goals. To me, she embodies the true meaning of womanhood–someone who has a strong sense of self, who thinks independently and is extremely capable while also being compassionate and selfless and generous in her love. She has taught me how to be a better daughter, sister, wife and mother.

I want to honor my mom, Dixie Houck. She deserves to be honored for so many reasons but the reason that sticks out most in my mind is how she has managed through the tragic loss of her youngest son (my brother), 18 year old Brady. There have been so many times when she wanted to just give up, I know it. But, she didn’t. She found strength in herself she didn’t know she had and has found a way to establish a new, different life. Not a preferred life – as I know she would (as I would too) prefer to have Brady a part of it – but it is a life that finds mom connecting with friends and family that she may not have otherwise and she is finding a confidence and strength she didn’t know she had. Mom – you are a strong woman with shoulders so broad, I love you!

to my wonderful mother, who has shown me what it like to be proud to be a women.
has offered me love and support and wisdom
has impacted me in so many ways
and is someone i admire to look up to becuase she is such a beautiful and strong women