Tag: family
Mental Illness Awareness Month: one family’s experience
A Rossmoor resident recently reminded me that May is Mental Illness Awareness month.My mother was diagnosed a schizophrenic in 1966. (I was 5.) I’m...
Mommalogues: Yelp me, momma
My mom and I were having lunch when she left me mid-conversation. She had that far-away look in her eyes, the one usually reserved...
Author, humorist to pen column for Sun on mom/daughter relationships
Some believe laughter is the best medicine. And when it comes to relationships, sometimes nothing can be funnier than the legendary and unique relationships...
A family’s Model A Odyssey
Sometimes it takes four generations to tell a story. Rossmoor resident Diane Wood has long cherished her mother’s and grandfather’s 1934 travel journal, a...
Seal Beach Arts & Crafts Faire set for Sept. 9 and...
The Arts & Crafts Faire in Seal Beach may be a 40-year tradition, but the American Arts and Crafts Movement started in Boston in...
I have an autistic sister
I’ve had a sister for 15 years.I’ve had an autistic sister for 13 years.According to merriam-websters.com, autisum is defined as “a variable developmental disorder...
Fitness buff tries to lift her brother’s burden
What do you do when a family member stumbles on hard times?That is a question that Julie Beck asks herself every day.Julie worries about...