New Beginnings

     Today is the last day of 2014. I am up early writing this entry. As I look back on 2014, I am thankful for the good things God has allowed to come my way. The opportunities that He has given me and even the challenges that He has helped me to overcome. As we get ready for 2015, it is a fearful time, as well as an exciting. We have to remember that no matter what circumstances we find ourselves in, that God has in under control.      2014 started out as a challenging year for the Milam's. Matt had just went through major surgery at the end of October 2013. He was scheduled to go back to UVA for test to see if there were any problems with healing from the first surgery. This was scheduled on Jan 8th. I had just re-enrolled back in college. Matt had started back to work on a part time basis. We both were still reeling from all of what we had been through. Everything from dealing with Matts surgery, my role as a caregiver, and having to withdra...

     On Monday morning, I got the shock of my life. I heard that Brian Fox has passed away. Apparently he died in his sleep.  I had just talked to him about three weeks ago. He was working for Southern Communications and he came to borrow something from Randy Kerbway .  It was good to see him. He looked good. All of us are older now, so we have a mature quality about us.  I was sad I didn't know the man he had become.      I met Brian in 1990, during the time of "the switch". He was hired as the midnight guy. I was a little upset, because they had hired someone to do overnites and I hadn't met them. I wanted to meet them, because they would also be taking care of the station I was in charge of.  He came up for a staff meeting. He came to introduce himself to me and we talked. I think he was about seventeen. He had a lot on the ball for being so young.  As I got to know Brian, I found I really liked him. He was funny, he ...

     To everything there is a season and a time a purpose under heaven. As I enter another season in life, I find myself looking back, not longingly, but looking back and rejoicing in how the Lord has brought me from. http://youtu.be/kmftmu3ycM4      I am at a season in life where I am starting over again. There have been many new beginnings in my life. A new employee, a new wife, an new college student.  This time I am a new college graduate. There is a renewed sense of purpose within me. I feel a new sense of confidence, not because I graduated, but because of overcoming the obstacles I had in my way. I had what it takes and more to do a job or whatever else I need to accomplish.       In my Philosophy of Leadership class, we read about something called the Leadership Diamond, which consisted of four traits that can be use in any type of leadership situation. These are vision, reality, ethic and courage....

     I just got back from a doctors office from a checkup. Everything is physically fine, but mentally that is another story.  I had two people who heard my voice ask me didn't I used to be on the radio. One of the nurses began to tell me how much she enjoyed listening in the mornings. She thought that I had retired.  I did mornings for 27 years. It was fun, but toward the end, my health problems began to take over and it got hard to do. I would have had to quit anyway, because my health was getting worse. I have so many memories. I have tried to move on, but no one will let me.  I look at people like Shirley Temple, who in her life accomplished many things, besides being the cute little girl who set box office record back in the 1930's. What a tragedy if she wasn't allowed to move on.      As for me, I am back on the radio doing something a little different mainly behind the scenes.  When I did "Joy in the Morning" that was ...

     There is a gospel song that I heard sang at church, "I don't look like what I have been through".. Thank God for that. The last five months have been a whirlwind of doctors appointments, surgeries, hospital bills ect,  Matt says he does look like what he has been through. I was telling him, he really didn't.  Right now he may move a little slower and get tired easy, but he is still recovering. In the old days a person didn't receive two major surgeries like he had in a period of 10 weeks. It just wasn't done. You were out of commission for a long time. In the hospital for two weeks , at home on bed rest for awhile.  Colon type surgeries were permanent, they did a colostamy and that was it. You learned to live with it. Now they have something called a "J pouch" They have been doing that type of surgery since the 1990's. He is doing very well.  I'm glad I don't look like what I have been throuigh either. As a wife what eff...

     I was listening to the radio today as I headed to Wal-Mart and I heard a song that I once identified with. "At 17" by Janis Iam.  It was a big song back in 1975 as I graduated high school. The verse said "At 17 I learned the truth, that love was meant for beauty queens, high school girls with clear skinned smiles who married young and then retired". I laughed as I heard the song today.  I turned to Matt and said they ought to do a follow up song called "At 37", where you could really see what happened to those beauty queens and the high school girls with clear skinned smiles who married young and the retired.      I have my own thoughts and observations on this at seventeen I was so insecure. I was afraid to leave home. I was supposed to go to Romney, after high school. They said I could come and do some post graduate work. Get some skills I didn't get in high school such as typing, maybe improve my math skills ect.  It was a...

      Its Been awhile since I took the time to blog. I love to blog, but I just kind of got bogged down with things to take the time to do this. Blogging has always been a way of sharing my thoughts, my concerns and even fears. Over the years I have took you through my journey in school, my journey's being without a job, the journey through my first time in radio through the present.  I can say that its been real, I guess sometimes too real for some.  I've always wanted to be transparent. I don't want to be one of the "fake" people as my sister calls them, they have a face for everybody. There was a song that Earth, Wind and Fire had out and the opening line said "Its funny that how you feel shows on your face", that me.      Matt had surgery number two back in January. They reversed the ileostomy. That was a journey that neither of us expected to have to take.  I think we are still shell shocked by it all. I am thankful for ...