When I was young, October meant one thing to me - Halloween. As I got older, I came to also view October as the month of my mother's birthday. After my mother died in 2002, I came to view October as a month in which I memorialized my mother. In 2010, I came to know [...]
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The ashes…
Today is the two year anniversary of the Galleria Fire. It is a date that is burned in my memory and my family's history. My two sons, Noah and Cory, and their roommate, Alex, lost everything they owned, their pets, and their naivete about fire's relentless nature. It was a difficult experience and the loss was great. But I would [...]
The other side of yesterday…
So here I am - on the other side of yesterday. The sun is out and I think I took my first full deep breath since Monday evening. Not that life has gotten any less complex or hectic - those are endemic characteristics of my life - but I do feel less weight on my [...]
We were # 316.
Photo credit: Carrie Snyder, The ForumI hate fire - always have. I think it is because from an early age I had a healthy appreciation of its relentless, take no prisoners' nature. When I was fairly young my brother was playing with matches in the house and caused a fire in a tall built-in storage [...]
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