New Beginnings

     I was reading the paper this morning and it was talking about Marshall University playing a road game on November 14. The paper says that they haven't played a road game since 1970, when a DC-9 airplane crashed killing 75 , including team coaches and broadcasters.  All of a sudden I was transformed back to a 12 year old kid, who wanted to be in radio...      November 14 1970, was an ordinary day at our house. On Saturdays we cleaned house, got ready for Sunday School and church the next day.  On Saturday evenings from 5PM-7PM, I listened to American Top 40 with Casey Kassem. I would have my Channel Master transistor radio and my cassette tape recorder side by side hoping to record the latest music on cassette. Later I would practice introducing it and doing interviews with my friends and neighbors.  I was listening and recording Stevie Wonder's "Heaven Help Us All" when it was interrupted by a sounder that said "Bulletin, Bul...

  I have been on quite an emotional rollercoaster of sorts. Storms of life  are something else. There you are in a comfortable groove, with school and work, and the extra money that is coming in from part time is helping you fix up some things around the house. You say to your husband, "You need to go to the doctor and get tests done, because you are at the age where you need to have tests done".  Then within a few weeks things change, they change so drastically that you can hardly catch your breath.  When the colonoscopy is done the doctor tells you they found a polyp and they don't know what's is up with it. Then you are referred to a surgeon who says that this is beyond my ability. Which I appreciate his honesty. I really do. He wanted Matt to go somewhere else.  Appointments are made and they work him in at UVA to get him in as quickly as possible. There was another appointment in Morgantown in October. which was weeks away.    Life becomes a ser...