My father-in-law's admission into a nursing home ended as expected, not happily. He died after about a week there because, quite simply, his body wore out. Parkinson's, cancer, pneumonia, a fractured back. You can take only so much.And, as we often hear, it was a blessing. There wasn't much point in continuing a life where ... Continue Reading

Amid all the merriment (and eating and drinking) that accompanies the holidays, I experienced a bracing dose of reality this last week that reminded me of something that we'll all be facing sooner or later.Death.Sorry to be so depressing, and that's not my intention. Rather, it's my hope that we can all take a healthy look ... Continue Reading

It's hard to imagine a more horrific story--a husband and wife arguing violently, then the husband pulling a knife, stabbing his wife to death, then killing himself---all this while the children were in the house.The Forsyth Police Department has declared Monday's tragedy in Sawyer a homicide-suicide.The trauma for the five ... Continue Reading

I woke up Sunday morning to ten inches of fluffy snow on the ground in our front yard. Welcome to Winter, 2010, finally.Normally, I would have been thrilled with the gorgeous transformation of our landscape, but it was tempered by my concern about the official unveiling/book-signing of "Portrait of a Peninsula" that ... Continue Reading