I Barely Knew Them
It takes a village to fight cancer. I am not alone in this battle. Since my diagnosis of multiple myeloma on June 18, 2011, I have been encouraged by family and friends, health care professionals and church pals, neighbors, and former students. These people know me well. They pray for me. They cheer me on.…
Last Week was Bananas
“In Good Hands” is the title of a post to this blog which appeared on June 6th of last year. It is the story of my first day of cancer treatment in July of 2011. Following that first visit to the treatment center at Kaiser Woodland Hills, I was overwhelmed with gratitude for the care,…
Audrey, Part Five
Another Sweet Goodbye When my mother was a little girl, her mother called her a “caution,” because she got into one scrape after another – like the time she was four years old and decided to lock my grandmother in the basement. Audrey lived to the ripe old age of ninety-nine, and she never stopped…
Audrey, Part Four
A Sweet Goodbye The decision to move my mother to a senior care place after four-and-a-half years in our house was a difficult one. Our house had become her home, and she was not eager for another big life change. Plus, she balked at the expense; but my brothers were ready and willing to pay…
Audrey, Part Three
The Later Years! “The Last Samurai” is a beautiful film about an American expat veteran of the American Civil War (Tom Cruise) living in Japan, who encounters the last samurai warrior of the title (Ken Watanabe). They form an unlikely friendship, and they are the last men alive on the battlefield, when the Cruise character…
Audrey, Part Two
My mom’s career as an interior decorator/designer started humbly enough when she answered an ad for a seamstress in the workshop of a prestigious interior design firm. She had always been nimble with a needle and for years had done piece work at home in the sewing room she fashioned out of our enclosed porch. …
Audrey, Part One
As February 21st approaches, my thoughts turn to my mother Audrey who was born on that date in 1904. To lend a bit of perspective, just two months earlier on December 17th, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully flew their experimental biplane at Kitty Hawk on the outer banks of North Carolina. The beginning of…
Tradition
We always loved the annual holiday set-up. Around Thanksgiving we would get the Christmas boxes out of storage. Year after year our girls were eager to bring out all those familiar family treasures and hang them in the same places. We put up the household decorations, hung our string of red, green, and white outdoor…
Powder Puff
Another Love Letter to Liza They say that our ability to remember grows dim with age. They are both right and wrong. For example, my short-term memory is impaired – cannot recall what I had for breakfast this morning or where I left my glasses. However, my long-term memory is like crystal; because I can…
Open Letter to Kirk Cameron
Hello Kirk, My name is Tim. Although we have not met, we have something important in common; we both profess to be born-again Christians. I have long admired your boldness and your defense of the gospel in the TV and film industry, which does not always show respect for people of faith. You came to…
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