“I want a friend!” my five-year old’s clear blue eyes showed the pain of rejection. Noah is deaf and the past couple of years have begun to show what the future holds for my little guy.The first few years of his life Noah had many friends in our neighborhood. Small...
He came into this world chubby, bald, beautiful, and with the bluest eyes I’d ever seen. After a very difficult delivery, he was born perfectly healthy and we all breathed a sigh of relief. We named him Noah and it seemed to fit.The day after Noah was born, the nurse...
She sat huddled in the doorway, trying to fight off the biting December wind. With a thin coat and her leg in a cast, she seemed small and vulnerable, but I knew she must be tough - much stronger than I, or most people I knew. She was the only homeless person on the...
She was in the last stages of her young life. Twenty-eight and losing her battle with a brain tumor, my sister seemed to be a people-magnet wherever she went.Although she would become much weaker and soon lose her ability to talk, walk and do anything on her own,...
I stared at the photo in my hands, faded with time and dark at the edges, as twilight had been falling at the time the picture was taken. The memories of Vietnam came flooding back. My time at Vietnam changed and shaped me in ways that no other events in my life have...
It was December 23rd. My children and I lived in a teeny, miniature house. Being a single mom, going to college, and supporting my children completely alone, Christmas was looking bleak. I looked around me, realization dawning like a slow, twisting pain. We were...
Last March, my husband and I were spending our anniversary in Hawaii. I was very excited to see the Pearl Harbor monument for the first time and couldn't wait to get there. I knew that I would learn more about the history of the event, but I had no idea what was in...