Wow, it was quite a week after I posted my Bastrop wildfire picture, and it totally became what several news agencies called the “Iconic Photograph of the Texas Wildfires.” It was on the home page of CNN and is the opening image in this Red Cross video asking for help. One of the things that came out of [...]

Images from the Austin candle lighting for Pregnancy Loss Remembrance Day. I had canceled the event due to rain, but at the meeting time, a rainbow appeared, so I un-canceled it.  I got to meet people I’d only known through my web site. Big sisters light candles too. The park at Palmer Events Center with [...]

Light a candle for babies lost to miscarriage and stillbirth at 7 p.m. in your local time to create a continuous wave of light around the world to remember our lost little ones.Several years ago, one determined mama and some friends went on a mission to get this day officially recognized in all 50 states.She [...]

Ten years ago today, at this very moment, I sat in a waiting room at my obstetrician’s office, flipping through baby magazines and occasionally glancing at the pregnant women around me, trying to decide who was the farthest along, and if I was above or below the curve in getting too fat, too fast. I [...]

It’s hard to imagine a creation system where it is natural for healthy babies to die in their sleep. It makes you question each religion, every set of beliefs. Maybe the science types are right–it’s all just dust and atoms, chaotic and non-linear. But faith has its place, and we cling to it out of [...]

Today, having sent Baby Dust to be copied for a few readers to take a look at, I decided to focus on the rest of my to-do list and get my 2006 receipts entered for taxes. On top was a pile of medical things. I went to the file cabinet to see what folders already [...]

I hate the cold. I shiver uncontrollably in misery. And normally I like the rain. It sings in my stove pipe and makes me want to curl up and read. But cold and rain. It’s just not Christmas to me. I’m supposed to be working on Baby Dust, but the rain just pours and the [...]

My grandfather died last night. He’s the guy standing on the right side of this picture in the flowered shirt. I took the image in March when we visited their nursing home in Wichita Falls. He had been in a lot of pain, and just had surgery the week before. He hadn’t been able to [...]

I remember the gubernatorial race between Ann Richards and Clayton Williams well. I worked at the Daily Texan, and my friend Janel got the glam job of covering her race while I had the ho-hum work of Phil Gramm’s re-election bid. This was November 1990. I had covered a lot of Clayton Williams’ campaign, most [...]

This has been the summer of the movie. The girls saw the requisite new releases, Over the Hedge and Cars. We also saw lots of kid film festival reruns–Wallace and Gromit, March of the Penguins, Shrek, Nanny McPhee, Jimmy Neutron, and many more. We took in at least one movie a week, sometimes two. Slipping [...]