Celebrating 50 Years: My Parents’ Love Story

This Sunday, we celebrated my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary at Turf Valley Resort. Today, on June 12, they’re officially celebrating 50 years together!!! As a surprise for my mom, my dad wrote a guest blog. I took the liberty of …[ read more ]

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Seven Reasons I Adore My Aunt Debby

Though she still sports the figure of a much younger woman, today is my Aunt Debby’s 71st birthday. You may know her as Debby Reincke, one of Will & Betty’s Darling D’s. Maybe you know her as the former FBI agent, …[ read more ]

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Transformed in 10 Minutes: Mom-Mom’s Story

Indomitable woman though she was, my grandmother had feared death since she was forty. Now, at eighty-five, she was dead. She had flatlined in the hospital, and the nurses struggled to revive her. Images of Mom-Mom passing before she was …[ read more ]

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Breast Cancer: My Friend Becky’s Battle

Who have you lost to breast cancer? This week, my funny, gifted, and beautiful friend Becky would have turned forty-one. In honor of her birthday—and Breast Cancer Awareness Month—allow me to share part of her story.  If you so desire, …[ read more ]

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Today 132 Loved Ones Will Commit Suicide

Have you lost a loved one to suicide? Today my co-author’s brother, Jim, would have been 57. Sadly, Kristina Cowan lost him to suicide ten years ago. And she’s not alone. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, in …[ read more ]

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