Today I awoke with a strong sense of loss and soon learned that a Howard County firefighter had died very early this morning in a seven-alarm blaze due to a lightning strike. Firefighters...such a special breed of heroes. Those who run toward danger not from it.
This loss is especially close to home as our son is a firefighter/EMT for Baltimore County. I feel for the family of this young man and for all these heroes.
About Me
- KathyA
- I am a retired English teacher and department head, the mother of three grand mother of four, and have been married to the same man for 53 years, two years after we met at college. I taught in both middle and high schools as I really love teens and in-betweens. I was also a certified Lamaze instructor, and for a short time a volunteer chaplain at Howard County General Hospital. I am a two-time cancer survivor, ovarian (2003), and breast (2019) I was born in South Philadelphia and grew up in the 'burbs with great parents, in a bilingual household. I love soft pretzels and cheesesteaks, the Phillies, the Eagles, the Orioles, and sometimes the Ravens. I love being Mom, Aunt Kathy, Nona Kathy (Kath), and Teacher. I spend a lot of time in my gardens in the spring and summer, and in the winter I plan what I'm going to plant. I also am an avid reader, cook, photographer, lover of languages, music, and four-footed furries.
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Monday, July 23, 2018
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
"Like Branches After A Storm"
My title is a line from a Ted Kooser poem "Abandoned Farmhouse". The poem is one of my favorites. When I saw our back yard on Sunday after Irene had passed through, the first thing I thought of was this particular line.
Relatively, we are unscathed and quite lucky. We never lost power, although most around us did on Saturday. Many, including our daughter, will not have power restored until Friday at the earliest as residences are 'down the list' after government agencies and schools. So she and our grand daughter are staying with us. On Sunday she and her neighbors had an impromptu block party. Melissa pulled out her grill and she and her friends cooked everything in their refrigerators and freezers as food was defrosting quickly. Someone must have seen the smoke and called the fire department, who were good-natured and let all the little ones sit up on the truck and ran the lights and sirens.
After my having a colon re-section and fistula repair, complications, a 5.8 earthquake, daughter Robyn's barn being hit by lightning, her suffering an allergic re-action to sulphur's being released into their well (due to the earthquake), and then Hurricane Irene, I think I can say it's been an interesting summer. C'mon fall!
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