Sunday, February 27, 2011

Big picture

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Most of living with grief requires baby steps -- minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. That's a difficult reality for the likes of...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Save the Date: May 14

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I've got exciting news! Frisco is hosting a Head for the Cure 5K, with proceeds benefitting the Brain Tumor Trials Collaborative at M.D....
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Coming spring

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"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn." -- Hal Borland  I noticed these tulip sprouts in our front beds today. The ...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Sweethearts

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Last summer Cooper attended Camp Erin , a weekend camp for children who have experienced the death of a loved one. Last night we attended a ...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Daddy Daughter Dance

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Katie shows off her corsage from Papa this afternoon. Katie has a strict rule about her Daddy Daughter Dance escorts: Her date must be a dad...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Belize

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Julie, Allison and I spent three days in the Cayo District of Belize this weekend. (Aunt Ami was in Frisco to take care of Cooper and Katie....
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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Lights, camera, action

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Faith Presbyterian Hospice -- the agency that helped Steve (and our family) in the last two months of his life and provided grief counselin...
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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Connected

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When I started this blog more than three years ago, the idea was to keep friends and family members informed about Steve's condition. I...
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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Short story

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While Katie and I were waiting for her piano lesson today, she shared with me and Jennifer how she explains what happened to Daddy. "Wh...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

The music is back, but the rhythm has changed

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My Briefing column from today ( also available here ): A silence has been broken in our home. For the first time in two years, music's p...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

A little reminder

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A small detail from our front yard Sunday morning
Saturday, January 8, 2011

Moments

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A fraction of the many moments I missed Steve today: Shopping for Katie's dress for the Daddy/Daughter Dance (this year she'll go wi...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Tri for Steve

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The Run for Steve team invites you to Tri for Steve! Join us as we swim, bike and run in memory of Steve. Cooper and some of his buddies w...
Friday, December 31, 2010

Our team

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Cooper and Katie take piano lessons on Sunday afternoons at church. But because of Christmas, this week's lessons were rescheduled to We...
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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Made me laugh

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I was just looking at photos from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day when I started laughing. Without thinking, I placed Steve's special ca...
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Friday, December 24, 2010

Sacred and secular

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I help lead our church's youth Sunday school class. This week fellow leader Joy directed us through a discussion on gifts. Why do we exc...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Prayers for a Frisco dad

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Once every few weeks I learn about another human diagnosed with brain cancer. A few of them have been given my name and e-mail address and h...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Sunday morning

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A typical Sunday worship service is full of grief triggers. Cooper, Katie and I sit in the same sanctuary we used to share with Steve. It’s ...
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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Yet another "Steve" pose

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Cooper, Gabriel and Katie ( with yet another "Steve" pose ) at Frisco Square tonight, after they tubed/sledded down a snow hil l
Saturday, December 11, 2010

MRI day

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Three years ago today, Steve had the first of many MRIs of his brain, at a hospital just a few minutes from our home. And while I'm sad ...