I won $50 million in the lottery. I ran with our little son to my husband’s office to give him the news. As I arrived, I heard in.timate sounds from him… So then, I did something.

I never expected my life to shift twice within a single hour. On a late October morning in Austin, Texas,   I stood in my kitchen with trembling hands, staring down at a lottery ticket while my four-year-old son, Noah, sat at the table coloring dinosaurs. I checked the numbers again and again, refreshing the…