Perspective in 2021

Perspective in 2021

Those of us who have lost loved ones tragically and unexpectedly have something others often don’t. I’ll get to that in a minute… I’ve been to too many funerals, watched the young die, and have lived under the threat of a potentially deadly cancer of my own. I’ve...

In honor of Father’s Day, I remember mine…

It was early in the morning on November 1, 1966, and I was barely four years old.  I played with my two-year-old brother on the living room floor while my mother dashed downstairs to move laundry from the washer to the dryer.  I still hear the knock on the...

Meeting Aunt Violet

When I was a little girl, my mother told us once or twice about a curious tidbit of family history. I remember one conversation as we sat on our driveway in Morgantown, West Virginia, and played with a litter of 6-week-old kittens. “I have a sister out there...