Today's Hero Blog

The first person who ever showed any real interest in me and who took the time to get involved in my life was my homeroom teacher in my first year of high school, Mrs. Samantha Royce. She changed my life.
I grew up in a rundown fifth floor apartment in Philadelphia, the daughter of Polish immigrants [...]

My birth mother, Susan Markey is a hero in my eyes, even though I never saw her until I was almost 30 years old. But her courage when she was only a young girl insured I would have a wonderful life filled with love and opportunity.
I knew from an early age that I had been [...]

One of my heroes is my sister-in-law, Judith Harper. When my brother Howard married Judith, it was a match made in heaven. He was a widowed father with five children under age twelve, and Judith was a divorced mother of two. Their marriage has produced two more beautiful children, so they gave new meaning to [...]

My neighbor and friend Donna Nardoff is one in a million. I don’t know of anyone else who has ever given so much to so many in this world.
Donna said that when she was growing up, she always wanted to have a big family. When she and her husband Joe married, everyone assumed that the [...]