There will always be a recalling of an event when an immense upheaval creates a collective memory for all times.

This morning we did what normally we’ve done since our marriage and on a Sunday in August 2011, we were reading the paper about Hurricane Irene blowing through the weekend. I stayed up all night.

Fifty years ago, in August 1972, near the guest campsites, an Eagles tune drew Yuri to a parking lot where he joined Jerry Kopychuk and Andy Fediw in a harmonious blend of mellifluous vocals.

Yuri's next stage of recovery includes a fist bump from his nephrology doctor, “keep doing what you are doing.” and natural therapeutics working with his speech pathologist extraordinaire.

Last week was the fifth week after being discharged from the hospital. We’re told it can take five weeks to recover from a one-week hospital stay. That means we have four more five-week recovery components to go.

Where does strength and resilience to face the unknowns come from? It's the will to live that produces biological changes influencing a positive outcome. July 15th would have been my mother’s 100th birthday. It was also the day she died, a beautiful summer morning