The Hardest Part

Reflecting back on my recent milestones of starting to feed myself and having reached 100 posts has caused me to realize my doing so was certainly a team effort. You’re support has definitely led to my success. Maybe not so much the eating part. I had my wife’s good cooking to motivate me to get…

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Eat It!

Today I reached a personal milestone! It may not sound like much to you, but today, Sunday, October 15, 2023, I was able to feed myself!  Such a small task that everyone does so often they take it for granted. My wife had walked away from a plate full of french fry pieces she had…

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Picture Wall

Jonell likes to hang pictures on the walls. When most people have photo albums of their pictures, usually grouped in the various stages of life. Jonell creates entire walls of those memories. She will fill spaces between doors or just about anywhere she can drive a nail. Even a few places she shouldn’t. So as…

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Dark Side

A long time favorite song of mine. You may recall it’s by John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band. Since it is the only song by them that ever got any play time, I guess that would make them a One Hit Wonder. Released in 1983 it only managed to climb to 64 on Billboards…

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Journey Onward

We are authors of our own stories, and captains of our own ships. Life brings us inspiration from many sources and I believe those are sent to us from God. Maybe they come to us in a dream, in a breathtaking sunrise, or in a perfect stranger who walks into your hospital room one overcast…

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The Visit

Ephesians 5:19 says, “singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart.” Friday was a very special day for me. It was this past Friday that we got a visit from my Aunt Sue and my cousin Brent. Two people who mean a great deal to me. They lifted my spirits! It has been years since I have seen either one of them….

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Hope

Nearly daily, I research the internet for articles that can educate me on new developments into LiS. Being the rare condition that it is, so too is the funding, and thus the interest in discovering a fix for this life-altering curse is almost nill. There are the many articles that give the same information on…

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Be Prepared!

I was awakened this morning by a loud beeping noise. It seems that one of my machines is equipped  with a safety feature whereby it beeps loudly when there is a power outage. Kind of like the emergency broadcast system. I always wondered what broadcasting an annoying beep did to save anybody. I mean, if you didn’t…

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