Every year at about this time, I wake up and realize that it is no longer the Chistmas season. This year, it was earlier in the week when leaving my building I glanced over my shoulder and realized that the tree and all the poinsettas had been removed from the lobby. That afternoon, I returned home and dismantled my electric train set and put the ( Read more... )

The whole week had been weighed down with lab results from two different hometowns. One was from my beautiful cousin Val, Kelvin's sister. The other from my own doctor. Mine were fine, but, Val was not so lucky. She and Kelvin are in for the fight of their lives and it seems like only yesterday they were fighting for the lives of their own parents ( Read more... )