My sister was fascinated by the hurricane. My dad and I asked her, repeatedly, to step away from the sliding door. It wasn’t just the hurricane. It was the sounds of the tornadoes clearing out our backyard that kept her attention. We were crammed into my dad’s office in our basement. My sister, my dad […]
My sister lives in Las Vegas and said, “Don’t forget to take your favorite toy.” As children we would all huddle into the hallway of our home, with our favorite toy to comfort us, to ride out the hurricanes. We evacuated to Alabama for one hurricane. It was worse there than it was in Panama […]
If something bad is going to happen, watch the animals. That is what I always heard. When I felt my dog trembling next to me in the bathtub, I almost lost it. I had on several coats, hoping that it would protect me from broken glass if the windows blew out. I also pulled a […]
The weekend before Hurricane Michael hit, my husband and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary. My daughter stayed with family and we enjoyed a nice dinner at Firefly. It was the best weekend we had had together in a really long time. Little did we know it would be the last weekend we would have […]