by Debby Efurd | Aug 25, 2013 | The Second Mile
My husband and I recently went to a reception for a charity we support. Arriving separately, I waited patiently in the August heat for my husband to park and catch up with me. (Actually, “patient” is not what I felt.) It didn’t take long to notice a...
by Debby Efurd | Aug 25, 2013 | The Second Mile
I was in class recently to beef up my skills on open source intelligence (“OSINT”). That’s a fancy term for spy-want-to-be’s to find out anything about anything through the public domain. Although I hold a national security clearance, the majority of information I...
by Debby Efurd | Aug 19, 2013 | The Second Mile
Recently one of our granddaughters had surgery at Cook’s Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth. There’s a really big medical name for the surgery she had, but it boils down to ear surgery to improve her hearing. The family gathered early that morning for a long day of...
by Debby Efurd | Aug 18, 2013 | The Second Mile
The “what” is PAS (Post Abortion Stress a/k/a Post Abortion Syndrome a/k/a Post Abortion Stress Syndrome). Yes, it’s another acronym for a string of words that you’ve probably never heard of. So allow me to put on my professor hat. PAS was first used in 1981 after a...
by Debby Efurd | Aug 18, 2013 | The Second Mile
I grew up with stories of Cinderella and Snow White, both with evil stepmothers. So, as a child it was a logical conclusion for me to believe that all step parents were inherently bad, right? Time marched on, society changed, and blended families, with step parents...
