Meanwhile, Mom’s body was at a local funeral home waiting for cremation. The funeral director asked if any of us wanted to see her one last time.
My Final Moments with My Mother
Written by Braiden on November 21, 2011
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The House on Sylvan Drive
Written by Laurie Halladay on November 14, 2011
As I looked at the torn-up lawn, bedraggled drapes at the windows, and an ugly cream-colored paint covering the beautiful varnished wood trim, I tried to remember the shell of a building when it was my home.
Living Life as a Daymaker
Written by Braiden Rex-Johnson on November 7, 2011
Part of the inspiration for Five More Minutes With is that we should live each day as if it were our last, for none of us really knows how much time we may have left.
With that principal in mind, I’d like to introduce you to a little book that changed my life in all sorts of positive ways when I first picked it up shortly after it was published back in 2003.
Nothing Left to Say. . .
Written by Carole Cancler on November 3, 2011
I never seemed able to please her—each time I tried, I failed. I always seemed to do the wrong thing, in the wrong way, or at the wrong time.
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Alma’s Grace and Style
Written by Kate Heyhoe on October 10, 2011
Thank you for being my best friend and such an extraordinary person. You really got the fact that in this life, love means everything.
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Sending You Lots of Love, Mom
Written by Braiden on August 13, 2011
This is one of my favorite photographs of our family, taken at Chris’s Seafood Restaurant in Ocean City, New Jersey.
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Making Gumbo with Annie
Written by Braiden on July 4, 2011
In late May, Pacific Northwest magazine contributor Greg Atkinson wrote a moving story about his mother, Annie LeClerc Sanchez Atkinson, in which he describes making a last batch of gumbo before dementia/Alzheimer’s claimed her life.
A Memorial Brick for a Special Mother
Written by Braiden on June 23, 2011
Every wonder what Five More Minutes With prize winners do with their donations?
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Memories of Mom and Dad
Written by Theresa Nielsen on June 9, 2011
“Mom, now it”s time to go and catch Dad up on the last 20 years!
19 Years, and Still Mourning Mom
Written by Martie on June 6, 2011
IF ONLY I HAD KNOWN…that night … you would be taken from us!!! OMG MOM!!!!! IF I ONLY WOULD HAVE KNOWN!!!!!
