“My mom was the epitome of unconditional love. Her love was simple and I think that’s what made it so easy. It was always the same toward me, no matter how she was feeling or what happened that day…”

“How did all of this time pass?” I asked myself. Youth is wasted on the young, I heard in a song a long time ago.

“I didn’t receive my copy. When they were giving them out, mine must have gotten dropped, given to someone else, or lost.  I didn’t get mine.  Did you get yours?”  

“My patient felt a lifelong dream had been met and I felt I had literally accomplished the impossible…”

“Is he in space?”, my 3 year old son asked. “Ummmm, yes. He is.”, I replied…

“…I also now know that loss is inevitable.  How we cope is up to us.”

“Sometimes I felt like I was stuck in a hallway, waiting for doors to open…”

“There was a simpler time in these folks' lives but now was not it. Now there was a focus on food affordability, finding transportation to medical appointments…”