My life began in fragments—passed from one set of arms to another before I was old enough to recognize a face or remember a voice. I was born in 1947, but the roots of my story reach back to 1944, to two young parents who were not yet ready for […]
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MOTHER’S DAY Four remarkable women played a significant role in my upbringing. My mother was a single mom who worked tirelessly to provide a good life for her two children—my brother, who has special needs, and me. Since she worked two jobs, she enlisted the help of her mother, Lorraine,
I would like to acknowledge and thank a magnificent woman who went beyond her job description and responsibilities to protect our 90-year-old dad. I call her his guardian angel because she saw he needed one and took him under her wing. Alecia deserves a hero’s metal for the care she
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I was 17 when my best friend, Sue, asked me to go with her on a bus trip from Seattle to Spokane. She wanted to visit a friend of hers who had moved there, and her parents said she could take the Greyhound bus if I went with her. The
