Month: May 2016

“Oh my word, you sounded just like Grandpa,” my daughter Sharon laughed. “He always was wanted a hamburger and you just asked Dad to get you a junior Whopper.” Me? like my dad whose physical and mental health declined until he needed full time care?! Me? like my dad, a ‘grumpy old man’? Could I…

I began to feel energetic after falling, breaking my leg and wrist – just in time for the surgeon to declare I needed major surgery to remove the temporary fix of my leg. “It will take three and a half hours to permanently fix the broken pieces of the leg with plates and pins and…

Today the calendar dictates families to honor mothers. Florists, candy makers, restaurant owners and department stores anticipate a spring surge in sales as husbands and children – young and old – scramble to find a way to show their love and appreciation for the family matriarch. Not in our family. Not this year. I gave…