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How Teaching My Students to Make Bucket Lists Saved My Own Life

November 10, 2015July 31, 2025 / Laura Joy Palma / 1 Comment

Thirty-six weeks after starting this blog in crisis, I'm teaching my students to dream big and write it down. Here's what happened when writing became my way back to hope.

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Two-Hour Tuesdays

The story before the story — how a blog became a lifeline, and how showing up to the page one night a week slowly wrote me back to life, and to faith.

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    Beautiful photos dear Laura.

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