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by Rick Blaylock Three days a year may not seem like much, but to my family and me, it is indeed priceless. In three days, we experience more emotion than most families do the entire year. The hurt and anguish that we hold inside can be relinquished and set free from...

Last year was our first year at the Friends conference. Our little Sophie, now 11 years old, has been stuttering for the past 6 years. We really had no idea what stuttering was or what causes it. We still don’t. But we could see it bothered Sophie. Before the...

Hotel room:$129/night Flight: $210 Registration:$320 Clamor of voices: Priceless That old VISA advertisement often comes to mind as I watch the beginning of a FRIENDS conference. Looking back on the weekend, I treasure the picture of young adults and teens hanging out...

I wish we had known about Friends years ago. During the 1st night of the Friends conference I watched my daughter, who rarely spoke to anyone other than her family, speak in a microphone to a room full of people she didn’t know.