PROJECT IF LIFE Blog: August 31, 2017

August 31, 2017 Our Dear Friends and Family, We’re ecstatic to be headed out for a baby three day road trip to Washington DC for a CareNet Pregnancy Center Conference! We are so excited because we are passionate about pregnancy centers! They are the frontline of the abortion war in many ways. 1,500 pregnancy centers will be represented at this event. We just left God’s Bible School and College, where we were hosted by Katie Weaver. It was so much …

PROJECT IF Life Blog: Missouri Mission

July 25-31, 2017 Our Dear Friends and Family, This morning, I walked into a small town Missouri McDonald’s. As I sat down with my work, I thought how exasperating it is that the entire restaurant always stares so freely and intensely at you in some parts of the country, when out of nowhere I feel someone grab the shirt from underneath my armpit. An elderly woman, holding my shirt turns, and says, “Herb, grab the knife.” I had a piece …

PROJECT IF Blog: July 25, 2017

July 25, 2017 Our Dear Friends and Family, We Made it to Jefferson City! This portion of the run is something we have eagerly anticipated since we began planning the route for Project If. An exciting thing happened this last week: I was on a journey to find wifi– I went to 6 places and none of them could support work; finally, I ended up at Hardee’s, where I met a couple that was excited about the Project. They bought …

Project IF Blog: July 18, 2017

July 18, 2017 Our Dear Friends and Family, We are on our way! After a short sabbatical, we have left Kansas City. Our parents, Mark and Jeanne Hoduski were wonderful hosts and are so grateful to have such kind, wise, and fun parents. The time here was full of meaningful experiences and fun times: Worship time, brunches, and bonfires were some highlights of ours stay. As recently announced, after advice from her doctors and the project board, Annie will be …

A Lobster Quadrille of Strange Symptoms

By Sarah-Marie Hoduski, Kansas City, Mo. Announcing a place where those suffering from chronic Lobster empathy can retreat: In Maine, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has spent $200,000 renovating a former prison to serve as a tangible metaphor of the enduring trials of the lobster. (1) Whatever the particular catalysts for Lobster empathy, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) openly warns consumers that many household medicines may cause any number of similarly bizarre side effects, not the …

The Posthumous Effect

By Sarah-Marie Hoduski, Kansas City, Mo. “Because you are alive everything is possible.” –Thich Nhat Hanh   What do Vincent Van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, and Franz Schubert all have in common? They died either in obscurity or wretched poverty and only after their passing were fully recognized for the ingenuity of their craft. They embody the Posthumous Effect: the idea that an artist’s expression transcends their lifetime, bearing weight and significance long beyond their years.  These artists’ retrospective legacies demonstrates …

PROJECT IF Blog: Kansas City Candid

  June 20, 2017 Our Dear Friends and Family, The Eastern half of the run has begun! It is GOOD to be back in Kansas City: connecting with friends and fantastic pro-life champions across the city, while also finding rest. Here are some of the exciting things we have been up to: This week we saw the future: Abortion always feels to me like a horror of the past It feels as though nothing this bad could be happening now, …

Pumpkin Patch and Progesterone Protocol

Sarah-Marie Hoduski,      Kansas City, Mo. Do you know what your child’s school can legally do to your child without your permission? What schools do need permission for includes: Required in writing, some schools need permission slips for Oreos, school picnics, the zoo, to play soccer, and to show Trump’s Presidential Inauguration. One particularly zealous school even requires a notary to sign off on taking your child to visit a pumpkin patch. (1) However there is an exception to …

The Strange Fate of the Frozen Orphan

Sarah-Marie Hoduski,      Kansas City, Mo. There are those that will be brought into existence 55 years after their parents have passed. They will be born to inherit the earth alongside the grandchildren of their own generation. Cryogenics. Once a myth of the future is a wide spread reality, today. In the United States there are 600,000 cryogenically frozen people according to the Health and Human Services Department (HHS). Disconcertingly, they were frozen without their consent, without their knowledge. …

West Coast Wound Down

From Bonner Springs, Ks June 19, 2017 Our Dear Friends and Family, We are finished with the first half of the run across the United States! We are SO proud of Anna and Nicholas for their endurance and commitment to the unborn. A race run: they covered every step of the Western half of the United States. After a 28-mile run, Anna and Nick crashed into the Pacific Ocean in May. Exhausted but joyful, Annie couldn’t keep her footing in …

Surgical Advances for Unborn Patients

“I see something on the ultrasound that we need to talk about.” The very words immediately alter an atmosphere filled with elation and expectation to one of fear and anxiety. All couples yearn for and even expect to deliver a “perfect” baby, yet in reality approximately 2% of all babies will be born with some type of birth defect. Most are non-life threatening and if need be, can be corrected after the baby is born. Others, however, can result in …

Colorado Cadence | September 12-22, 2016

Our Dear Friends and Family, We are getting close to being half done with our second state, Colorado! Annie is a cold weather athlete so it is pretty exciting to watch her get pumped for runs! We can hardly believe how the miles have flown. It has pretty much felt like Kansas until Denver— with the exception of the small living forts that homeowners build with trees they dig up in the Rockies. It’s hard to believe it but the …

Crossing Kansas | August – September 2016

Our Dear Friends and Family, We have been sailing across the Kansas prairie for the last several weeks: we are thrilled and grateful to announce that we have reached the Colorado border! The Kansas route was just short of 500 miles; we are so proud of Annie for her commitment and diligence! Annie has blown us away with her mileage. She is running more than 20 miles a day! When the miles have been shorter than we hoped or the …

Speak Latin to Me: Pro-Abortion Breaks Out its Foreign Language Skills

When your doctor, the pope, or your lawyer do it. Fine. But when the news starts speaking Latin… get nervous. Why is the pro-abortion agenda so uncomfortable with the word baby? This agenda is devoted to replacing baby with the word fetus. The cardinal rule of communication is clarity. So, why speak Latin? The removal of reality is the only way to prevent wide-spread and formidable revolt against abortion in the US. The dirtiest word in abortion dogma is… Baby. …

Kindly Colorado | October 1-7, 2016

Our Dear Friends and Family Another lovely week. SO many natural wonders. We are so grateful to be in such a beautiful and fun part of the world! Saturday, we got coffee and then hiked with Nathan and Elisha Wisener in Colorado Springs: we connected with them through their parents who hosted us in Limon, Co. It was a really neat day! We bouldered and then traversed a creek bed lined with fool’s gold. We ended with a huge waterfall …

The Danger of being Buried Alive in the 21st Century

Paris, 1786, was a year of heavy rains and flooding. The graveyard Les Innocents was overflowing with corpses; accordingly, an edict went out that the cemetery could take no more bodies. The corpses must be moved to tunneled catacombs. As the bodies were exhumed, they were found to be on their stomachs. So many crumpled skeletons were found that the public became fearful that they were in great danger of being buried alive. (1) With the images of fingernail marks …

Onward to Utah | November 9- December 4, 2016

Our Dear Friends and Family, Hosts upon hosts greeted the team in the heights of Colorado. One host home in Montrose, Colorado was the Welches. The team felt as if they had found home amongst the steep slopes surrounding them. While the team was staying with the Welches, they enjoyed drinking coffee while seeing the depths of the black canyon. The team also took a little time to take pictures in their new project t-shirts. The Welches also opened their …

Utah: Perseverance and Determination | December 5-28, 2016

Our Dear Friends and Family, Finishing Kansas and Colorado was a huge feat for our team. After conquering these two states, anything seemed possible, and with God as our strength, anything is possible. Utah has undoubtedly been the toughest state we have encountered so far, but the Lord is our strength no matter the situation or the difficulty. We are currently about halfway across Utah on our southern route towards Los Angeles, California. Utah began with vehicle troubles and routing …

In a Fight, Who Wins: Stephen Hawking, a Sumo Wrestler, Paris Hilton, or Bear Grylls?

If humanity were strictly on a sliding scale: pitting wealth, independence, size, and physical development some of the most competitive people are— Wealth: Heiress Paris Hilton, Intelligence: Scientist Stephen Hawking, Size: Sumo Wrestler Akebono Tarō, Independence: Survival Expert Bear Grylls In a world where individuals’ worth is determined by capacity: these four fight it out and brute strength probably carries the day. This scaled world where Sumo Taro wins (he drags Paris by her hair back to his dojo if …

The World Must Not Forget

The smoke is still rising in gruff billows just beyond the towns. The strain of life is passing by in daily monotony. The gray blur of people is fading as the dreariness drags on into the black picture of late 1940s Germany. As the reporters creep like ants across what remains of the beautiful Eastern European lands, one question resounds: “Why did you do nothing?” When the smoke smothered the sun like the thickness of night, when the smell infected …

The Swirl of Fingerprints

The first heartbeat of a child, the first swirls of fingerprints, the first strand of hair, or the first movement in the womb – when does life begin? Almost all elements of the pro-life, pro-choice debate come down to when life begins. At what point in life does a human gain her right of personhood? Under the fourteenth amendment, a child born in the United States is a citizen and therefore gains fundamental rights. If the government were to assume …

Plains to Passes | October 8 – November 8, 2016

Our Dear Friends and Family, The warm weather in Colorado continues to hold as Anna and Nick run across the state. This past month’s running has been increasingly difficult as the elevation continues to rise. After passing Canon City, the elevation began to take a toll on the mileage that Anna and Nick have been running. Though the mileage has dropped to somewhere between 13-17 miles a day, the state of Colorado is steadily being conquered. This past month’s running …

Posterity has been deposed in favor of today’s possibility.

The sliding scales pitting wealth, independence, size, and physical development are in action every day: they determine for those in the womb who will live and die. Specifically, those that are born into poor homes, that are dependent in one fashion or another, that are young, or small are often sentenced to death. Abortion gives rights to the strong that they have no right to. Its tyranny over posterity, its triumph of brute strength over equality of worth is a …