Before getting to today’s post I just wanted to mention that we’ll be taking Snowy into the vet in a little while. For the past couple of days, he’s been making a coughing/choking sound and today it has gotten a whole lot worse; he’s probably coughed 150 times already this morning. He’s also drinking a lot and not urinating like he should which of course brings up all of our old concerns about…
I was just thinking this morning that we are about six weeks away from Sarah’s 10-Year Diagnosis Anniversary. (May 17, 2002.) And it occurred to me as I looked back over these past years that when you have a child who is diagnosed with cancer, you don’t just deal with the trauma of the original diagnosis day. You also have to survive the countless follow-up…
If you live in a small town like we do, you can probably list a whole line up of small town benefits. One of my personal favorite things about small towns is small town people–the local legends, the characters, the long time residents who know every bit of history that makes up the town in which they live. I met one of those fascinating small…
Writing. It’s what I do. It seems like it’s what I’ve always done. Even before I was able to make real words, I remember sitting beside my mom at the kitchen table while she wrote letters to family and friends and I would take a piece of paper and fill it up completely with little “flowy” scribbles, like I was writing in cursive. By the…
It's hard to believe I've been blogging that long. Many of you have been following since the first word was written all those years ago. Thanks to both old-timers and newcomers for being part of our story.
My goal is for Smithellaneous is to be a place where strangers become friends.
