Waiting for Mom and Dad, Part 1 Here is the beginning of how we completed our family! In a small Romanian village, on an auspicious day in the middle of January, 1993, a child was conceived. (Amazingly enough, at that same time, in Tallahassee, Florida I fell in love with sign language. (Blog PostContinue reading “Blog Post # 22: An Orphanage Story”
Category Archives: Family Stories
Blog Post # 20: Our Son, The Clown
Family Stories This is about our youngest son, who was six years old when this story takes place. Our son happens to be Deaf. He also happens to hate cigarette smoke. He and I had just finished doing our grocery shopping at the Food Lion. We started to walk to our car. Then I noticed,Continue reading “Blog Post # 20: Our Son, The Clown”
Blog Post # 18: Don’t Touch His Head!
Black Humor My family has had its share of tragedy. I have found, in the midst of tragedy, there are two things that have made me feel better, at least for a few moments. The first, is having the family’s babies around us. Just looking at them brings a smile to my face. The secondContinue reading “Blog Post # 18: Don’t Touch His Head!”
Blog Post # 17: Icy Nebraska and Wild Rides
Narrow Escape In the winter of 2004 my sister Deb, my then 10 year old son Alexandru, Alexandru’s Lego Space Shuttle, Mom’s cat Felix, and I were driving to Utah in a 20 foot U-Haul. The cab seemed very small as we were crammed in shoulder to shoulder. We had left Orlando with my Mom’sContinue reading “Blog Post # 17: Icy Nebraska and Wild Rides”
Blog Post # 16: Dying Of Embarrassment, Literally!
Embarrassing Moments I was in 12th grade typing class when I excused myself to go to the bathroom. I happened to be sucking on a hard candy. While I was washing my hands, I managed to suck the candy into my windpipe. Suddenly I couldn’t breath! I stood there at the sink, trying cough theContinue reading “Blog Post # 16: Dying Of Embarrassment, Literally!”
Blog Post # 13: Family Stories — Grandma Hall Falls In Love At Age 74
Frankie Ruth Haswell Hall Grandma Hall was my Mother’s mother. At age 74 she fell in love with Peter Doke, a man she went to high school with in Garfield, Arkansas. He always lived in the country, on a farm. She always lived in a city. They hadn’t seen or communicated with each otherContinue reading “Blog Post # 13: Family Stories — Grandma Hall Falls In Love At Age 74”
My Life, by DAG 