Many years ago I took piano lessons from a great master teacher, Donald Denegar. He expected perfection and work and focus and lessons were hard and wonderful!  Well, all but one. This lesson started out bad…I had traveled that week and had little time for practice. It showed. We spent the entire 90 minute lesson… Continue reading Trouble with D Words

I did not tell Santa “I’d love the Brighton earrings and bracelet, a garden stone with Reid’s tiny handprint and cancer”…but it is what I received.  A surprise early December diagnosis…a phone call while alone in Dublin…merry Christmas! “Radiology report is in on the MRI…lytic lesion on T5 vertebrae suspicious for plasmacytoma, multiple myeloma or… Continue reading An Unexpected Christmas