Riding The Wave – Multiple Myeloma

“Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.” – Proverb Dave and I are off to Huntington Beach for the Thanksgiving Holiday Tradition. We are taking our beloved Kip with us who will celebrate Thanksgiving at Dog Beach and love it. Like a parent with a child, I take such joy in seeing […]

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“There’s nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.” – Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Finally! I’m home at last! I got in around midnight last night from Miami via Minneapolis/St Paul. A long day of traveling to be sure. My phone went on the fritz part way through my trip and then with all the traveling […]

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“Talk may be cheap but intelligent conversation is very expensive these days. Ask anyone with a kid in college.” – Unknown Well we made it, not too worse for wear. We arrived at Rosehaven Wednesday morning at 6 am. Paula was up of course, and we hugged and went to bed. I slept a couple […]

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“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and, like a dream, glides away.” – Sarah Helen Whitman Montana’s summer is coming to an end and we are, very shortly, headed in her car, back across the United Sates to Maryland where she will attend her senior year of college. 0

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“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha Our 23 year old son arrived late Saturday night from Tampa Florida to spend about a week with us before flying to Maryland to visit friends, before he begins his new job in the South Miami area for Valley Crest. He has graduated from […]

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“Luck:  Where preparation and opportunity meet.” – Hudson’s Mom  – (and countless others of like mind) My son Hudson, a recent graduate at the University of Maryland, had applied for and won a Professional Internship at Disney’s Epcot Center in Orlando for the summer. We didn’t know at the time, but he had beat out […]

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Normally, Montana is front and center. She is our second child and 2.5 years younger than Hudson. She wanted to help. Of course. She had a full time job as a pool manager and a summer diving coach. She was also still competing in the summer league (Montgomery County Diving League) with her last year […]

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