Poignancy
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Friday, June 25th, 2010And the health care system goes round and round. My 8-year-old daughter Elizabeth and I feel like we’re getting tossed like so much Caesar. When I was in second grade, our school yard had one of those old-fashioned merry-go-rounds, a metal circle with handle bars. You ran alongside it, and when you hit the perfect speed, you’d [...]
On Cheez Whiz and Seizures
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010I’ve always been told that the more adjectives you pile on, the further something deviates from what you thought it was. Take Cheez Whiz. It is not cheese. If it were cheese, the package would just say “cheese.” At most, “cheddar cheese.” Or “American cheese.” But no. Cheez Whiz, in addition to its aberrant spelling, [...]
Grace in the face of adversity
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010My youngest daughter is Elizabeth Grace. She’s seven, likes to paint her fingernails a new color (or two) every day, refuses to eat anything that isn’t yellow, and has a still-unclassified seizure disorder due to malformations of her brain. For the past two days, we’ve been snagged in a sea of health care red tape. [...]
Glorious Nuptials
Sunday, August 30th, 2009The majority of my photography-related work can be found at my studio site, but this is a special case, the marriage of two of my best friends. I had the great honor of photographing their ceremony. We went to Canada since it is illegal for these two wonderful people to get married here in Texas [...]
Our Candlelighting
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008Images from the Austin candle lighting for Pregnancy Loss Remembrance Day. I had canceled the event due to rain, but at the meeting time, a rainbow appeared, so I un-canceled it. I got to meet people I’d only known through my web site. Big sisters light candles too. The park at Palmer Events Center with [...]
Oct. 15 is Pregnancy Loss Remembrance Day: Light a Candle
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Light a candle for babies lost to miscarriage and stillbirth at 7 p.m. in your local time to create a continuous wave of light around the world to remember our lost little ones.Several years ago, one determined mama and some friends went on a mission to get this day officially recognized in all 50 states.She [...]
On Class Reunions
Monday, June 16th, 2008Nelson Mandela once said: There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. I suspect most of us who attend class reunions find this to be true. Last weekend I went to my own 20th high school reunion in the little town of [...]
10th Anniversary of Baby Casey
Monday, April 28th, 2008Ten years ago today, at this very moment, I sat in a waiting room at my obstetrician’s office, flipping through baby magazines and occasionally glancing at the pregnant women around me, trying to decide who was the farthest along, and if I was above or below the curve in getting too fat, too fast. I [...]
Unspeakable
Monday, July 9th, 2007It’s hard to imagine a creation system where it is natural for healthy babies to die in their sleep. It makes you question each religion, every set of beliefs. Maybe the science types are right–it’s all just dust and atoms, chaotic and non-linear. But faith has its place, and we cling to it out of [...]
Flashbacks
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Today, having sent Baby Dust to be copied for a few readers to take a look at, I decided to focus on the rest of my to-do list and get my 2006 receipts entered for taxes. On top was a pile of medical things. I went to the file cabinet to see what folders already [...]
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