by Monica Vest Wheeler | Oct 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Everyone should attend a class on real life and engage with a stroke or brain injury survivor. It’s amazing what you can AND should learn about them … AND yourself. I absorb volumes every chance I get. In a text conversation with a stroke survivor, they asked if they...
by Monica Vest Wheeler | Sep 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
The last time my friend and I held hands … Though I had experienced this moment and written about it six years, this message is timeless … I was reminded yesterday of the power of love … I visited a dear friend who is in hospice, who quit eating a few weeks ago. She’s...
by Monica Vest Wheeler | Sep 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Monica and her mom in the fall of 2017. If those walls had ears … oh, the stories they have heard and could tell … I’m going to duct tape their mouth shut! During the 10 months my mom faced lung cancer, I drove her to every appointment with the oncologist and...
by Monica Vest Wheeler | Sep 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Monica in her early newspaper reporting days. We all have our roots and sometimes they are replanted in the most peculiar ways. I grew up in a management family. Dad was in middle management of General Motors, a position that gave us a comfortable, not extravagant,...
by Monica Vest Wheeler | Sep 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
My son and cat finding their corner in the clutter. While scanning old photos, I came across images of the disorganized living room in our old house. I must apologize again to my son for the clutter in which he grew up because of MY shortcomings. My brain couldn’t,...
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