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,...
by Monica Vest Wheeler | Aug 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Monica, third from right, with her bonus siblings and mom, Brad, Susan, Diane, Brenda and Curt. How does that famous quote go … “Sometimes it’s the family you’re born into and sometimes it’s the one you make for yourself.” Yeah, Carrie Bradshaw from “Sex and the...
by Monica Vest Wheeler | Aug 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
After a very hot day at Retreat & Refresh Stroke Camp on Saturday, August 6, I was reminded of a camp from July 2017 when the weather was miserable and how this community of stroke survivors and caregivers and volunteers united in the most amazing ways … Here is...
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