Notes From My Easel

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Archive for July, 2011

THE LONG ROAD BACK FROM CANCER

Posted: Thursday, July 28th, 2011 @ 2:12 am in Health, Lennie & Kathryn | No Comments »

My mom use to say that “No news was good news”.  That may have been true decades ago when it was so much of an effort to hand-write, stamp, address and mail out a letter just to say that you were doing fine.  But in these days of blogs and tweets it isn’t necessarily so. [...]

LOVE LETTER TO LENNIE

Posted: Monday, July 11th, 2011 @ 11:08 pm in Lennie & Kathryn, Thoughts | No Comments »

“When somebody love you, it’s no good unless she loves you….. all the way…..” It is late at night as I sit here at the desk while you sleep.  I am surrounded by photos of us.  Happy photos that I look at now, knowing that in every one you had cancer and it was getting worse all the time. [...]

FATTY ACIDS TO THE RESCUE

Posted: Sunday, July 3rd, 2011 @ 12:25 am in Health, Lennie & Kathryn, Uncategorized | No Comments »

We have just arrived back in Hamilton after spending a week in Canandaigua with Lennie’s sister and father.  His 2 daughters and the new baby at 3 months old flew up from Florida to stay with us.  It was a little family reunion that I thought might do Lennie the world of good, just to [...]