Thirty Days of Thanksgiving – Day Four

Day 4. The Letter D.  The annual picture of Daddy and “the girls” “In the game of pitch, you can shoot the moon with only an ace and a deuce – providing it’s the first hand of a new game.” This is the kind of wisdom I learned from Daddy – the object of today’s thirty days of gratitude. Home-spun …

>Breast Cancer Awareness Month

> Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Denver October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month – this year celebrating 25 years of awareness, education, and empowerment. Race for the Cure events are being held worldwide this month to remind women to have their annual mammograms and to work together so that more women might live. My sister is …

>ONE OF LIFE’S SIMPLE PLEASURES: HUMMINGBIRDS

>Last weekend, my sister, Donna, found this little fella slumped over on a plant stand in her underground garage. Surprised that it was a hummingbird, she took it up to her patio, where she saw that it was alive . . . just barely. Cupping it tenderly in her hand, she held it up to the hummingbird feeder on her …

>CAFE SPECIAL OF THE WEEK – Savory Oyster Crackers

> We’re still in the too-hot-to-be-cooking mode here, so this week’s special is another simple, no-fuss treat compliments of my sister, Marsha. She comes up with some unique and delicious recipes—perhaps from her Bunko pals, who definitely know good eats and how to have fun. Savory Oyster Crackers go great with iced cold drinks or lemonade and are a great …

>A Celebration Worth Noting

>Last spring, my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer during routine mammography. To say we were shocked and devastated goes without saying. The latest technology, pinpoint accuracy in locating the nodes closest to the tumor, microcellular examination of tissue, and a bevy of amazing doctors became a part of Donna’s life in this most unexpected interruption. She had surgery, a …

>HAPPILY EVER AFTER

> We have attended more weddings this year than we have total in the last five years. Love must be in the air, and it is so encouraging to see young couples in love, their feet on the ground, and their heads in the clouds. Weekend before last, my nephew, Robbie, married his sweetheart, Kylee, in a beautiful, just-before-sunset, outdoor …

>A Subject Close To My Heart

> Aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women. Breast cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in Hispanic women. It is the second most common cause of cancer death in white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native women. In 2004 (the most recent year numbers are available), 186,772 …