Mason Gregory Garka

I was recently asked this question: What are you most passionate about? My initial thought was how do I sum this up???? So I asked my husband to help me summarize... In short this is what we came up with as a response. The thing that I am most passionate about (aside from my family)  is helping others overcome adversity in their life.   About seven years ago my husband and I learned that our unborn son would be born with a heart defect called HLHS (Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrom).   To keep it short, this meant that he was going to be born with half of a heart and would require three major open heart surgeries within his first four years of life in order to get blood and oxygen to all the places in his body that require it.  This was obviously a devastating blow as my husband and I were so excited to start a family and have our first child.  Through a lot of prayer, support from friends and family, and an amazing medical resource at Children's Hospita...

You are either a person who enjoys collecting things or you are not. When I was growing up I played with different “collections”. My earliest collection was trolls (The silly looking creatures with crazy colored hair).When I collected all I wanted or they lost there value to me I moved onto another collection… My collections ranged from beanie babies to spoons to barbies. None of these collections still intact today. In the present I am not a collector of any one material thing. Although my husband would  probably  disagree and show you to my closet where he will point out my collection of shoes, handbags, belts and clothing, my response - clearly not a collection just an occupational hazard of working in retail.  Instead of collecting material things I collect words.  This is something that has just happened. It  wasn't  something I sought out to collect. Besides you are probably reading this not understanding what I even mean by saying I col...