AUBURNDALE – Nancy Salek was tired of looking at funeral arrangements by herself.
Since being told she has only two months left, Salek, 58, has undergone the process of doctor appointments, filling out paperwork and looking into funeral arrangements – mostly alone.
Her five siblings and mother live out of state and had no idea about Salek’s prognosis until a few weeks ago.
AUBURNDALE | Nancy Salek was tired of looking at funeral arrangements by herself.
Since being told she has only two months left, Salek, 58, has undergone the process of doctor appointments, filling out paper work and looking into funeral arrangements mostly alone. Her five siblings and mother live out of state and had no idea about Salek’s prognoses until a few weeks ago.
Lenny Whorton started making his first banjo in 2000.
It took him three years to finish it. He carved the neck out of a 20-year-old walnut log, working it down by hand, carefully hollowing out a spot for the truss rod. He notched the inlays into the mahogany fret board he’d layered over the walnut with a Dremell tool and a pocketknife. That, he says, was the toughest part.
That nickel-plated five-string is a nearly exact copy of a Gibson RB4, minus the “Whorton” on the head, built with the aid of blueprints he’d ordered from the Gibson company. It’s the banjo he’s playing on YouTube videos posted by a teenager he’d been giving lessons to. Those videos show a bigger man than you see now, picking on “Cripple Creek,” “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” and other bluegrass chestnuts. The comments section, not notoriously a kind place, is filled with people calling him the “real deal” and asking where somebody who could play like that has been hiding.
Charleston – Like many seasoned travel hackers frequent travelers who use a variety of means and methods to amass frequent flier miles and rewards points. Rick Ingersoll doesn’t like odd-numbered miles. So the author of the popular blog The Frugal Travel Guy found a way to get rid of them and help others in need at the same time.
He donates his odd-numbered miles to The Dream Foundation.
The Dream Foundation is a 17-year-old national organization that fulfills final dreams for adults, and their families, as they face life-limiting illnesses. Many of those dreams involve travel, for urgent goodbyes, family reunions, final trips with children, and other end-of-life reasons. The Dream Foundation has partnered with Alaska, Continental, Delta, and United Airlines to accept miles donations to help those who need.
NEW YORK — Just outside the World Trade Center construction site, Chaz Fudge Jr. lit up a Newport 100 and took a long pull.
“I quit smoking, but I’m a little nervous today,” the former Newark resident and telecommunications executive said Tuesday afternoon.
Fudge had come from Philadelphia, where he now lives, to pay his respects, he said, to the people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in lower Manhattan.
He also came to say goodbye.
Fudge, 51, has stage four lung cancer. Translated into time, doctors say he has another six months to a year to live.