by Saralyn Ward | May 11, 2017 | Blog
My wife birthed our first child. When it was my turn to get pregnant, it took forever. Each month was riddled with hope followed by disappointment. At the time I ran a program for kids with autism. They were beautiful, brilliant, and often times physically aggressive....
by Saralyn Ward | May 10, 2017 | Blog
As I sit down to write this blog, my five-year-old daughter is beginning her gymnastics class at our local rec center. I watch them warm up and I can’t help but wonder if she’s in the right class. Most of the girls are much taller and older than her. But she’s...
by Saralyn Ward | May 9, 2017 | Blog
My name is Heidi Ganahl. A lot of folks know me as an entrepreneur and the founder of Camp Bow Wow, or more recently, Regent-At-Large at The University of Colorado. But most people don’t know that along with my passion for dogs, I have a driving passion for my...
by Saralyn Ward | May 8, 2017 | Blog
I didn’t know what was wrong with me. I had a beautiful, happy baby boy. I had a husband who doted on us (and did the dishes diligently). My parents had rented an apartment across the street to help take care of Rho and me. I had just inked a book deal and was...
by Saralyn Ward | May 7, 2017 | Blog
We sat in a crowded hospital cafeteria, sleep-deprived and terrified. We couldn’t eat. We could barely think. “Do you think she could die?” I asked him. My stoic husband answered with the slightest head nod, and I could no longer contain my grief. After weeks of no...
by Saralyn Ward | May 6, 2017 | Blog
Motherhood has taught me that I can be counted on. I get my Sh*# done. It’s like I become a machine when I need to be, whereas before, I would sometimes sit and ponder why life was such a pain in the ass. Now I just do the thing. If it’ll truly benefit me...
by Saralyn Ward | May 5, 2017 | Blog
I know why tigers eat their young… It is easy to pass judgement on those in the throes of parenting. We’ve all done it. We’ve watched a child’s fit or public rebellion and silently criticized the parent or their response. We have rolled our...
by Saralyn Ward | May 4, 2017 | Blog
I was 27 weeks pregnant when I went into labor. My husband’s mother had come to stay with us the day the cramping began to get serious. It had been coming and going for days… finally it got so bad that I just stayed in bed. It was the 17th at bedtime when I...
by Saralyn Ward | May 3, 2017 | Blog
“Empowering mothers – women – is not just about starting businesses. It’s about making sure they find their power, and when times get hard, they know how to push through it. We built this civilization, and if we ain’t right, nobody gonna...
by Saralyn Ward | May 2, 2017 | Blog
Me and my husband were travelers. We decided to travel from California up to Oregon, backdown through to Colorado. We made it here, no problem, were here for awhile…it started getting rough, so we decided we wanted to leave. We got bikes and trailers and...
