by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
My mother, sister, and I have scratched our heads a little bit and laughed together about some of my father’s perculiarities since his life-threatening hemorrhagic stroke seven years ago. I think he’d always had a little bit of an obsessive-compulsive...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
I am a busy person. I like being busy. And I enjoy the satisfaction of getting things checked off my to do list. But more and more I realize that I may just be giving off vibes that I am too busy for the people who actually are the more important part of my daily...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
I just returned to this blog site after a brief (?) break and realized it’s been 10 days since my last visit. Wasn’t yesterday New Year’s Day? Each week seems to fly by. A new job must have something to do with that. Every day is so full. I have to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
It’s interesting that, this time of year, you can take almost any group of people with a Judeo-Christian background and put them together, add some Christmas traditions, and have a party. The case managers at the Homeless Day Resource Center pooled their talents...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
This year, instead of giving gifts to one another, my parents and siblings and I each chose a charitable enterprise to which to give. One brother and my parents chose food banks to support. Another brother and his wife bought Christmas gifts for a family whose...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
Working in a homeless center has provided me a view of human dignity that I might not otherwise have had……A troubled soul, one who is often difficult and incoherent, who takes the initiative to clean the coffee center, just because it needs...
