Went to the Safeway store today where the Tucson shootings took place a week ago today to support the employees of the store who experienced the terror of that day and to contribute to the victims fund sponsored by Safeway.  I have to give Safeway a lot of credit.  They were closed for a whole week while the investigation was going on and yet they paid all 81 of their employees their full salaries.  Kudos to them.  So many people have come together in our… Continue

I really thought he'd come home from the hospital during those early days of his illness.  I knew it would be tough for him to stop drinking, but with my encouragement and that of my husband, I felt he could make it.  But liver disease took him quicker than any of us expected.  I miss him so much and some days I am so angry that alcohol has done this to our family again.  He isn't the first one to die from this ugly disease.  All of my uncles drank heavily, my first husband, even my Mom at one… Continue