Oh Dayna, how I miss you, how I miss you so very much! It has been a year that you've taken your life. How I wish you could have overcome your schizophrenia just enough to have been able to call and trust me to come to your aid; to enable you to...

I met her on one of the text on-line games, the predecesor to WOW and such. She liked my 'different' take on things. Most folks would just say crazy, including me. The staff of the game were treating her badly and I stuck with her. There wer...

I wanted you to know that I worke dwith Dayna as a health educator over the course of her 100 pound weight loss journey. She was a passionate person who was committed to the diet and I'm sorry she won't reap the benefits of that but I hope s...

For our grandparents' 50th anniversary, our whole family gathered in Nevada to celebrate. We spent several days eating well (and too much), enjoying the sights and sounds of the big city, and just enjoying each other's company. One day, my father...

I was 27 when I gave birth to Dayna, April 28th 1977. Gordon and I left Brooklyn NY in 1976 for Massachusetts.  I was just like any other first time mother, excited, n...

Dayna bought a baby monitor lizard from a reptile store in Escondido and took it in as her baby. I couldn't seem to pick him up properly and he had no qualms letting me know I had done wrong by biting me consistently. It took me forever to learn...

Dayna rarely kept a regular sleep schedule and would be up or asleep at all hours. There was a period where she got into a regular sleep cycle at night and a confused and lonely Rorschach would come and bug us at 4am, looking for attention from Momm...

Dayna was born 8:21pm.  At some time after 11pm, I found myself ourtside Woman's Lying In Hospitial is Boston walking to the train station completely exhilerated. I was now a father of a baby girl and there were a world of possibilities for...

I'm at my college classes and I get a call, "We need to talk when you get home." I assume she's going to break up with me or something. Certainly a conversation started that way is grave. I rush home in a panic, unsure of what unpl...

When I was 17 years old I was in my first year of college with few friends and a lot of classes. I spent most of the time studying and working. So not much of a social life. My sister Dayna on the other hand was a vibrant person who attracted lots o...