From my first appointment to every chemo (化疗) session, my husband or grown daughters were by my side. At first I resisted their efforts, feeling uncomfortable that everyone was taking the time out of their lives to come to take care of me but in the end I was grateful that they did...
In addition to observing the usual rituals of visiting relatives, my mother was modeling what would be expected of us as daughters when she brought me and my sister Christine along on these trips. And that’s how I thought of those visits even though they only took a half hour by car. ...
Being in these places, you begin to see things differently; you begin to understand why people look the way they do, why they speak in a certain way, why they create certain things – why they are who they are, for better and for worse. It’s like seeing old photographs of your gran...
Today would have been my father’s 100thbirthday. In part to celebrate his life, in part out of curiosity about his early adult years, this coming autumn I will publish a collection of hisLetters to Long Lanefrom the 1940s. In 1943, Arthur joined the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engine...
to put it very mildly. I was not the most patient patient. That was actually the hardest pill to swallow. What a snarky little thing I could be. A major pain and felt like such a burden; it was so frustrating. Ugh. However, never EVER did I not recognize and ever-so-deeply appreci...
There was hardly an empty seat to be found in the courtyard; bachelorette groups, moms and freshly legal daughters, birthday gaggles of women over sixty. “You’ll see,” she said wisely, patting my shoulder. The ladies behind the bar of the tasting room whipped out wine glasses and ...
To all who believed in him and who accepted him, he gave the right to become sons and daughters, children of God! – John 1:12 Share this: Twitter Facebook Email Print LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Pocket LikeLoading... Posted inUncategorized|Taggedeternity,heaven,hell,salvation|Leave a comment ...
Christine means "follower of Christ." Active participation in religious life has beendeclining across the United Statesfor decades, which may be partly why fewer parents are naming their daughters Christine these days. #21. Boy: Ronald Canva ...
It is time to put an end to this outrage. “Mother’s” Day is an abhorrent, anachronistic vestige of heterosexist oppression. In barely concealed homophobic code, it implies that a child needs and/or benefits from having a mother, and that motherhood is something other than an outdated so...
me. The reality is that I am old and immunocompromised and as such very high risk and my brain knows that my time has passed. I’ve passed the torch to a new generation of tech smart, dedicated men and women who will rock this challenge. Besides, my daughters have me on house arrest...