Saturday, March 27, 2010

'Bring Him Home'

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Click here to see a video of David Gaschen's magical peformance of "Bring Him Home" at the PFAMily Arts benefit earlier this...
Friday, March 26, 2010

No contest

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Darla and I started working together at the Dallas Morning News about a decade ago. Darla livens any situation -- especially a sometimes st...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Trees

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Steve loved trees. He especially loved our front-yard trees -- our scrawny, new-home, suburban trees. When we had the house built in 2002, w...
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Monday, March 22, 2010

Two things

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Two things in my bedroom that make me happy: For our 15th wedding anniversary last year, I asked my super-talented sister Melane to create s...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

A good life

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Cooper, Katie and I had an adventurous Sunday. We cheered for friends at the Rock 'n' Roll Dallas Half Marathon. This was my first r...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Double truck

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Countless times throughout the day I think, "I wish I could share this with Steve." Kids, politics, a funny line in a television s...
Monday, March 8, 2010

Measure in love

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Tonight's benefit concert was incredible. More than a dozen cast members of the touring company for Phantom of the Opera spent their o...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

Six months

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Sundays are especially difficult in my post-Steve world. It was on a Sunday six months ago that he took a drastic turn , suddenly unable to ...
Thursday, March 4, 2010

Phantom cast benefit next Monday

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Cooper, Katie and I look forward to seeing "old" friends and making new friends at the PFamily Arts benefit next Monday night! Fro...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Three photos

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I have a love-hate relationship with photos right now. They bring me great joy and also make me wistful for the days before the Damm Spot. H...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Grief

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My column for Briefing today is about the unpredictability of grief. You can read it here or here: Grief, like life itself, isn't some...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Guest blogger Liz: Run for Steve in March

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I know it's still cold out there but some of us have still been running, or at least trying our best! A few members of the team will be ...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Picture of joy

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This photo always makes me smile, even when it makes me cry. October 2005 Katie continues to talk every day about Daddy and how much she mi...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

Steve Damm Fund benefit

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You can now buy tickets to the March 8 concert , benefitting the Steve Damm Fund (college fund for Cooper and Katie) and PFamily Arts in ...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

From the beach to the snow

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Aunt Ami came to town last Friday, allowing me a few days to get out of town. Liz, Holly, Piper, Victoria and I escaped to Palm Beach, leavi...
Saturday, February 6, 2010

The dance

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Frisco sponsors a Daddy Daughter Dance every February. Early last year, when we realized how quickly Steve's condition was deteriorating...
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Friday, February 5, 2010

Katie's song

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Katie often composes songs about Steve. I was quick enough to capture today's song on my phone.
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Save the date: March 8

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Last week I received a surprise phone call from David Gaschen -- Frisco dad, Broadway star, all-around nice guy. (You may remember that he r...
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Monday, February 1, 2010

Cooper's big weekend

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I tell Cooper and Katie every day that I am proud of them and that Daddy is proud of them. If Steve had been with us in person this weekend,...
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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Melinda update

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Our friend Melinda will undergo brain surgery again Monday morning at 7. She has recovered well since the Jan. 18 surgery, but the post-sur...