by Monica Vest Wheeler | Oct 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
I often flip through Mom’s small desk calendar, and this week noted one of her annual dates to remember, the passing of her mother in 1944, when Mom was a month shy of her fifth birthday. More than a quarter century ago, I became fascinated, actually obsessed, with...
by Monica Vest Wheeler | Oct 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Monica speaking at her mother’s celebration of life in July 2018. I’m hearing and reading the word “funeral” a little less these days. Is it a shift in society or vocabulary or a way to describe something that sounds so final? “Service” appears frequently as...
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...
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