This is an updated version of a post I wrote last year. As I hear about how people are using (or in some cases, wasting) their sometimes large income tax refunds. I felt compelled to share my story again about how I used tax time every year to make a huge difference in my life […]
If you read my last blog, then you read about my beautiful Valentine’s Day proposal. I really hate spoiling the story for anyone who hasn’t read my book, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother, but these two blog posts are in me and need to come out because […]
Ignoring me, he got on one knee and grabbed my left my hand fully removing the big chocolate candy I was about to complain about him taking. It was actually a black ring box. My mouth dropped, and my heart started to beat out of my chest.
…ignoring it, pretending it didn’t exist, thinking it wasn’t as bad as I already knew it was, thinking it would fix itself, or just moving on to the next thing.
Did you get a chance to read my blog about my two-week birthday trip to Gatlinburg and my journey home? If you didn’t, here is the blog link and the interview link is at the bottom of this message: https://summerowens.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/the-journey-back-home-2-weeks-12-cities-and-over-1200-miles/. In the blog, you’ll see how I had a chance encounter with someone that led […]
As I begin to prepare for new and exciting opportunities coming in 2016, I get overwhelmed with gratefulness and excitement. The past five years have been truly amazing. I always remind you that I have had some tremendous trials (I’ll share them in my next book), but I have been tremendously blessed. I don’t take […]
Feels amazing to use time, talent, and even trials to transform the lives of others. This past Saturday, the S.O. What! Foundation hosted nearly 50 awesome teenagers at the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis. I had a little selfish motive for having the event there because I love my […]
When I came to the University of Memphis in 1997, I was a scared but excited freshman with a two-year-old son. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined the amazing things that would happen for me through this school. Miss UofM, FCBE, and UofM Outstanding Young Alumna, and NOW THIS!! I have […]
Wednesday Rounding out my six days of awesome events was the US Olympics Women’s Boxing Trials. If you read my blog for the Sunday of the series, you saw my photo with Olympic Gold Medalist, Claressa Shields. She’s 20 years old now which means she won the gold in London when was only 16! Well, […]
