All day long, Jenny Marr counts to four in her head.
She counts four bottles, four bibs and the four toothy grins of her identical quadruplet sons: Harrison, Hardy, Henry and Hudson. The boys were born into a global pandemic and recently celebrated their first birthday.
It was easier to keep track of newborns who stay in one place, Jenny said. Then they started rolling, and then came the crawling. Now that the babies are on the move, Jenny’s eyes dart all over the room, counting slowly to ensure they’re accounted for.
One … two . three, four. One … two … three …. four!
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DALLAS President Bush headed up a who s who of the Republican Party at Monday s memorial tribute to former Texas Sen. John Tower and his daughter, victims of a Georgia commuter plane crash that killed 23 people. Bush, his wife Barbara, and their son, George W., were among an estimated 1,000 mourners who attended the hourlong memorial service for Tower, 65, and his daughter, Marian, 35. They died en route to a party honoring his new book.
Advertisement The book, Consequences: A Personal and Political Memoir, was a bitter, personal recollection of his Senate rejection in 1989 as Bush s nominee for defense secretary a defeat some friends say he never overcame.
North Texas Residents Taking Steps Forward Nearly 1 Year Since Pandemic Was Declared Syndicated Local – CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The month of March symbolizes one year after the world changed from COVID-19.
Many are taking on 2021, hopeful that normalcy is on the horizon.
“It’s been a year of change for sure, and I would say I am ready to get back to some normal,” said Taylor Durham of Fort Worth.
We underwent lockdowns, learned to mask and stayed socially distant.
Fast forward to today, and over 44,000 Texas lives have been lost to the virus.
It’s wreaked havoc on businesses, bars and shopping centers. Many are excited to reopen.
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Rev. Katy Shedlock is a poet and pastor, who serves Highland Park United Methodist Church and Creators Table at the West Central Abbey. In 2018 she helped represent Spokane at the National Poetry Slam. Katy s poems have appeared locally in The Inlander and The Spokesman Review and she often performs her work at worship services and church meetings. She loves teaching poetry and has done so in settings as diverse as a village in Kazakhstan, a GED classroom in Allentown, an Orthodox Jewish Girls Yeshiva in Pittsburgh, and at her churches here in Spokane, where she turns most Bible studies into creative writing classes.