Chemo Day: Circling My Calendar in Pink
Chemo Day keeps me whole.
What I Learned in My First-Year-Journey with Cancer
Looking back a year after cancer In the first few weeks following my cancer diagnosis, I learned. In the following months, I also learned. I am still learning. Know this: nobody’s journey is the same. Also know this: we can learn from each other’s journey even when it is different. Looking back over the year…
Daddy, Will You Walk Me Down the Aisle?
The most difficult walk a parent can take is to walk with a child on the journey of death. Yet, that is what Willis and Greta Beitzel had to do, and they did it well. Their daughter Krista was born in 1984 and diagnosed with a brain tumor when she was three years old. Over the next…
Why I Am Wearing Red Today
I am wearing red today* because it was Mom’s favorite color. Mom Slabach always said she didn’t understand why Christian conservative folks didn’t think women should wear read. Yes, red was a color often worn by harlots, she knew. She’d been reminded of that many times. She didn’t care if that’s what harlots wore, because she…
Arrival is a Reason to Celebrate!
She called it her Arrival. Today, it has been twenty-four years. She has missed so much – but not as much as we have missed her! When Mom arrived in Heaven, she had a baker’s dozen grandchildren. Now there 29 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and a few more on the way. No one can…
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