There are times when the mitzvah that you set out to do doesn’t end up being the one that you accomplish – and when you end up getting more from an experience than you gave. And that was the night that I had last night. While visiting Stella in the hospital last night, I heard… Read More The Dust Bowl Pioneer
Some would say that it’s not the nicest thing to call your best friend a devil as she struggles to endure the pain of her recent surgery – but we’ve all got to do what we’ve got to do. Stella is not feeling heroic. She’s in a great deal of pain, completely and totally understandable… Read More The Heroic Devil
It’s hard to believe that Stella has reached this point. Sometime in June, when all of this began, they were told over the phone that her scan didn’t look good. The doctor, however, didn’t want to talk about it over the phone and he scheduled a time for them to come in the next day.… Read More A New Beginning
Words fail me at the moment…but I feel the need to capture a tiny bit of our activities tonight on paper – or on cyber paper as you will. Yarden started his 12 hour long, one-man bike-athon tonight to raise money for families like his that have been struck by illness. He told us about… Read More Longing for a New Dawn
As a teacher, I’ve always impressed upon my students that their actions speak louder than their words. When I became a parent, I made this one of the cornerstones of my parenting. Your actions – not what you say – will reflect who you are and what you want to convey to others. Yarden Frankl’s… Read More Fight like Hell and Ride like the Wind
After Stella was diagnosed, I found a banana bread in the freezer. And I wanted to cry. See, banana bread is Stella’s trademark food for our family. Sure, she makes a million other things and has many specialties that her family loves. Yarden even blogged about it tonight. But, for us, it’s always been banana… Read More It’s Not About the Bread
