"Jon Jon" Fletcher is a happy and active 5-year-old, but there is a ticking time bomb lurking at the base of his brain. A tumor, which cannot be treated, will cut his life short.
Mom would have been 84 tomorrow. It doesn’t seem like it’s been seven years since she passed away, yet, it seems it was a very long time ago when I could pick up the phone and hear her voice.
Mom would have been 84 tomorrow. It doesn’t seem like it’s been seven years since she passed away, yet, it seems it was a very long time ago when I could pick up the phone and hear her voice.
Jon Jon Fletcher is living with a time bomb in his brain stem. It's called a brain stem glioma.
The TV news on Tuesday morning took us to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, yet again to see a guy, remarkably looking like Bill Murray, pulling a poor very sleepy, probably grumpy, groundhog out of a log to see if he sees his own shadow. It's a holiday. But I don't feel like I'm getting my share of holiday-ness out of it.
Elvis was in the building Saturday evening for the Viva Las Vegas themed party hosted by the 2010 Junior Service League Provisional Class. Transforming the JSL headquarters on Crysler Avenue into a kitschy Vegas nightclub, the 12 members of the class put on a party that will not be soon forgotten or outdone.
Although many in the Independence community might know Shirley from the more than 20 years she owned and operated the Courthouse Exchange restaurant on the Independence Square, she likes to be known as something else: a wife, mother, grandmother and even great-grandmother. Or as Bill likes to say, a “great, great-grandmother.”
The Jackson County Genealogical Society (JCGS) will present guest speaker Gary Toms on “Sources and Approaches for African/American Family History” in celebration of Black History Month.
Groundhog Day came and went without any fanfare for the groundhog who lives in the summertime in our backyard and presumably the same one that is wintering here now.
No men in black tails and tall hats arrived on our lawn on Feb. 2 to await his weather forecast. No bright spotlights or television cameras were here to record whether he saw his shadow.
