The Ten-Dollar Gesture That Transformed My Work, My Confidence, and a Family’s Hope

Our daughter Maddie just turned sixteen. She lights up any room she walks into, not because she tries, but because she thinks so deeply about the world. Science is her passion, and she spends her nights studying biology or stargazing like the universe is whispering study tips. She dreams of universities far from our small town, and even farther from our budget.

So we save where we can. I skip the occasional lunch and slip the few dollars aside for her future. We’re not quite struggling, but we walk close enough to the edge that every expense has to be thought through twice.

Continue READING