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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR HOLLY…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR HOLLY…

Holly, I remember the day you were born.  You were my only child who arrived late!  Ten days late!  We were waiting for your delivery to pack up the house so we could move back to the U.S. after 7 years in Jamaica.  There was nothing about your birth that went...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RON!…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RON!…

73 years ago today, Ron Brady was born!  He was the second son of his parents but was born one year after their only daughter was stillborn…because she was too big.  She was 8 lbs.+  The next year, on a frigid Wisconsin night, Ron arrived.  He came too fast for...

THE CASE OF THE MISSING LUGGAGE…

…or HOW TO START YOUR FIRST WEEK OF CROSS-CULTURAL TRAINING WITH A ONE-YEAR-OLD! This is the saga of what happened in our family this past week.  I don’t really know the whole story, but will tell you the parts I do know.  If you read my facebook or...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVIE!…

One year old!  Wow!  This has been a fast year for a little boy who was so waited for.  What a joy you have been.  What a delight!  Last year about this time, your mom was getting ready for a C-section.  She wanted a regular delivery, but she wanted a healthy baby...
9/11-ONLY NINE YEARS AGO!

9/11-ONLY NINE YEARS AGO!

  9/11-That is a date that is branded in my memory.  I woke up that morning to a phone call from my daughter (who lived in New York City).  She asked me if I was watching the TV.  I wasn’t.  So I turned it on.  Then she told me what had happened.  I was...