Sunday, December 27, 2009

No cards this year

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We didn't send Christmas cards this year. I wrote about why for one of my Briefing columns this week. You can read it here or here: Chr...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Christmas Eve

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This is our house, in the middle of the Christmas Eve snowstorm. (I know. "Snowstorm" is relative. But by North Texas standards, ...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Abby's gift

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Do you remember Abby ? In July she and Asher organized a lemonade stand to raise money for Steve's health care expenses. On Tuesday darl...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Catching up

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I'm so proud of everyone who ran White Rock in memory of Steve. I still need to post results and photos. I've been especially busy w...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Cooper sings

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The music therapist who works with Cooper and Katie every other week encouraged Cooper to write and sing a song about Steve. Before her visi...
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Sunday, December 13, 2009

White Rock: Quick version

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Part of the team gathered early Sunday morning: (top row, from left) Clay, Sharon, Allison, Jim, Will, Sally, Paul; (bottom row, from left)...
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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Pre-race dinner

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Jim and Betty hosted a lovely pre-race pasta party for the Run for Steve racers and friends tonight. We were sad to miss a few folks because...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

Two years

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I really don't like Dec. 11. Two years ago today, Steve and I stood in a dark room at a nearby hospital, staring in horror at a scan of ...
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Steve on TV

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The local NBC affiliate interviewed me, Cooper and Katie yesterday about Steve and the team running in his memory this Sunday . Different ve...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

If you're in the Dallas area ...

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... you can watch the Damm family on Channel 5 this afternoon. In advance of the White Rock Marathon this weekend, Cooper, Katie and I were ...
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Guest blogger Liz: Cheer for the Run for Steve runners!

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The White Rock Marathon is just days away! The Run for Steve runners have been getting ready for the big race Sunday, but even if you aren...
Saturday, December 5, 2009

Missing Steve

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Cooper told me recently that his only request from Santa this year is one more opportunity to talk with Daddy. We talked about how Cooper ca...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Missing

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Tonight I attended the first in a series of grief workshops at church. We've hired a trained grief expert to lead a six-week class for f...
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Thanksgiving week, Part 2

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Katie, Molli, Brooke and Cooper Tara, who is taking her fourth year of ceramics Cooper and Uncle Jim Katie and Uncle Rich Melane and Aunt ...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Thanksgiving week, part 1

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Cooper, Katie and I left town for Thanksgiving break. After visiting my mom in Temple and taking my sister Melane and nieces Brooke and Moll...
Thursday, November 26, 2009

Thanksgiving

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Today was good. We're all tired and full. I'll update more later. Until then, here's my Briefing column that ran today. *** My ...
Monday, November 23, 2009

Guest blogger Liz: Order your T-shirts!

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We're less than one month away from the big run -- the White Rock Marathon ! It's time to talk T-shirts. The logo on the shirts has ...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Encouragement

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I'm training to run a leg of the relay in next month's White Rock Marathon . This time last year, Allison and I were running two-hou...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Lately

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Last Monday, Cooper raced his Tasmanian Dolphin boat (built with assistance from Layne) in his Cub Scout pack's Rain Gutter Regatta. He ...
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Monday, November 16, 2009

Gratitude

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My friend Mary Jacobs, an amazing mom, friend, journalist and cancer survivor, writes for the United Methodist Reporter, a national newspape...
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