Deborah Carney

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The Day Your Child is Born

July 18, 2017 by Deborah Carney

The day your child is born you know your life will change. Sometimes you don’t understand the depth and breadth of that change and that might be a good thing. If we knew where life would take us some folks that don’t think they are strong enough might decide to not take that path. At […]

Filed Under: My Children

Looking Back as I Turn 60

November 19, 2016 by Deborah Carney

I turn 60 in 11 days. On my 50th birthday I sat in a restaurant in Las Vegas with a friend and his son. Friend didn’t understand why I wanted to go out for that particular birthday and then it hit him. I lived alone at the time, having moved to Las Vegas after a […]

Filed Under: Cats, Memoir, My Children, My Family, My Work

Dear “Me”

September 10, 2016 by Deborah Carney

Dan hand wrote this letter to himself sometime around late 2000/early 2001. He was 19. Dear Me: Life is about intelligence, about survival, and about being fun. First you have to do what you need to. Then you need to do what makes sense. Then you have to do what’s most fun. Society likes to […]

Filed Under: From Dan, My Children

Septembers

September 14, 2014 by Deborah Carney

September 19, 1980. That is when September started to be an important month for our family. It’s when my son Dan was born. Then there was the Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. I paid attention to it as a teen, I even volunteered when I was about 16 or 17. Then it was a big […]

Filed Under: My Children, Writing

Something My Daughter wrote in 2002

March 10, 2013 by Deborah Carney

My daughter Liz did a google search on her name, which we do from time to time. She found a post she made on a site that had an email address for her that neither of us remembered. I put the domain into Archive.org and not only did she own the domain way back when, […]

Filed Under: Grieving, My Children, People Who Inspire Me

Not “How to” But “How Did I” Transcript

October 17, 2011 by Deborah Carney 1 Comment

Not a “How to” But a “How Did I”…. Technology Gave My Children Better Lives Chapter 1 I’m sitting here on a day that is a sad day for me every year. Nine years ago today, on Mother’s Day, May 13th, 2002, my youngest son was killed in a car crash. Every year on May […]

Filed Under: Disability Advocacy, My Children, On Being a Work At Home Mom

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