Monday, November 29, 2010

Tumor humor

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Almost every time there's a new adult in Cooper's or Katie's life, I make a point to gently mention Steve's illness and deat...
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Thankful for perspective

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Happy Thanksgiving! In my Briefing column today, I write about one of many gifts from Steve -- the gift of perspective. You can read it her...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Steve and Katie

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Katie has a new way of posing for photographs. It's very similar to the way her Daddy would pose for photos. Even their distinctive eyeb...
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Purpose

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This week for work I interviewed Nick Vujicic, a 27-year-old who was born with no limbs. He's a motivational and inspirational speaker a...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Birthday

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Steve and I often said that if you have to have a brain tumor (and there's certainly no choice in the matter), you couldn't be in a...
Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Birthday dinner

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Thursday is Steve's 42nd birthday. Katie believes that his celebration will include pizza, cake, flowers and everyone he knows in heaven...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

Heroes

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Cooper as Steve (complete with a Steve tie) and Katie as Mrs. Harris It's the end of Red Ribbon Week at our school and schools all over ...
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Friday, October 22, 2010

Rangers

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I've been a Rangers fan for 20 years. Steve was a fan of baseball and the Rangers long before I was. We went to games while we were dati...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Run for Steve/Tri for Steve

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The official Run for Steve team is taking a year off from the White Rock Marathon this year. I know that some of our runners will be there...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Before I forget (and some details are already fuzzy)

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I don't think I've shared before how beautifully our elementary school handled Steve's death. I thought of it today when a store...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

End of day

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Those few minutes before children fall asleep are often the most enlightening of the day. If you pay attention, that's when you're l...
Friday, October 1, 2010

Unexpected moments

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A constant thread throughout this grief process has been my ability to cope with expected vs. unexpected moments. When I can anticipate a gr...
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Friday, September 24, 2010

Michigan trip

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If Steve were here, he would tell the story of this year's Labor Day weekend trip to Michigan in a long, winding, entertaining way. Stev...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Steve & Cooper

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When Cooper was a baby, he looked almost exactly like me as a baby. In fact, one of my best friends, Melissa, called him "little Tyra....
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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Perfect timing

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On Tuesday I was feeling particularly cheated. I kept thinking of the opening lines from Robert Browning's poem "Rabbi Ben Ezra....
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Memorial service

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A year ago today a few hundred people gathered to celebrate Steve's life. So, it's about time that I finish posting audio from that ...
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Friday, September 10, 2010

Four truths about grief

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My Briefing column today is here and here: Four truths I've learned about what happens when we grieve I am not a grief expert, but I a...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Reclaiming "Spot"

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Last night a group of about 100 (I'm guessing, and I'm not good with crowd estimates) helped to dedicate a patch of grass, four oak ...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Service tonight, with or without rain

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Tonight we will dedicate the Steve Damm Spot at church -- with or without rain. If there's a gentle rain, we'll gather around the tr...
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Monday, September 6, 2010

Too many words

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There are about a hundred different things I could write about tonight, which somehow puts me at a loss for words. I'll share just a few...
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