November 2016

Between Now and Thanksgiving

Between now and Thanksgiving…

3,000 children worldwide will be diagnosed with cancer. One third (1/3) of them will have brain cancer.

Our family was one of those families. Our perfectly healthy nine-year old daughter was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in the days before Thanksgiving. We were told that the cancer

November 2015

Our Daughter’s Killer

Two years ago today Mark and I went to see our daughter’s killer. Our beautiful, bright, loving, carefree girl was stolen from us. She was abused, tortured, drugged and, after we helplessly watched this happen for 11 1/2 months, she was killed. I felt, and still do feel, like a victim of a horrific crime