There’s another great post on the Crying Out Now blog. The post is by a woman who finally decided to stop drinking because driving drunk nearly cost her her life. I personally know the high cost of drunk driving, at least from a victim’s viewpoint. I have never driven drunk or incapacitated in any way [...]
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the day my identical twin brother David was killed by a drunk driver on his way back to UCSD in California. He was driving from Boston to San Diego. Fifteen minutes before he left our childhood home for his long trip back to school I had a bag in [...]
This past Saturday, I had the pleasure of taking my fellow twinless twins Anna Tse and Honey Langley out on s/v Pretty Gee. They hadn’t been sailing before so this was a new experience for them. I also had my friends Ken and Dottie Willits and Dave Cowles along for the ride. We started out [...]
(this post is a work in progress and will be finished shortly) Wednesday, July 11, 2012, I flew out to Columbus to attend the 2012 Annual Conference for Twinless Twins Support Group International. Since I had promised to bring cheesecakes to Crystal, I decided to fly out a day early and stay with my cousin [...]
There are times when you make decisions and the results make you ask “What if?” Those “What Ifs?” can drive you crazy. One such decision for me happened nearly 25 years ago, when my twin left on a drive back to San Diego, headed back to school. This is the first time I am writing [...]
Today is always a day of mixed memories for me. Twenty years ago today, my identical twin brother, David, was killed by a drunken driver just outside of Nashville, Tennesee. The drunk driver only got 90 days suspended due to the incompetence of the police department that handled the accident investigation. It took the police [...]
One of my favorite blogs to read is 37 Days, by Patti Digh. A recent post of her talks about the movie “March of the Penguins”, and talks about a young woman named Meta. The story really hit home for me, since Meta was about the same age as my identical twin and, like him, [...]