Advocacy, Access, and Movement for the Silenced.
This post is dedicated to my youngest Son and middle child Scott. Today is Scott’s thirtieth birthday. Some 11 thousand other people were born on that day in the U.S., and our world has added approximately 3 billion people since he was born. Of those 3 billion more or less, I’d say I got the…
“Get off my lawn!” Saying it brings back images of the movie Gran Torino. Clint Eastwood staring down the barrel of his shotgun trained on a group of teenagers, whose fight happened to spill onto his front lawn. Their being there was unintended, and although the boys were up to no good, what Clint Eastwood was…
Back-to-back celebrations. Mother’s Day and Lydia’s 14th birthday. Of course, Sunday was Mother’s Day, and Monday was my lovely daughter Lydia’s 14th birthday. This will have been the second time I have celebrated both of these momentous occasions since my stroke, but the first time that they fell on consecutive days. I of posted my…
As I have said to you previously, music has always been a strong influence on my life. I guess then, it’s only appropriate that I was a DJ for 25 years of it. One particular song, which held special meaning to me, was a 1980’s song by Mike & the Mechanics, called The Living Years….
This second year of my BLOG, I have decided to really focus on the positive things in my life and celebrate every small victory I have. I know this is something that I said before, but scary as it is, I look at the change from Hospice to Home Health Care to be something that…