Nearly 120,000 people in the United States currently are on a list to receive a life-giving organ transplant. Everyone is not lucky enough to obtain a transplant in time. IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH is the story of one man's journey to find the means to get a transplant, if he could manage to live long enough. Jim and Marilyn O'Leary and their two sons were living a good American life. After growing up in the Midwest, Jim and Marilyn made their home in New Mexico in the high desert country they grew to love. They started out their work lives as teachers. Jim then moved on to become a realtor,...
Nearly 120,000 people in the United States currently are on a list to receive a life-giving organ transplant. Everyone is not lucky enough to obtain a...
In "No One To Wake, " Marilyn C. O'Leary shares "a bouquet of mourning" the death of her husband of fifty years. This book of poetry is beyond beautiful. And one needn't have been married for fifty years, or married at all, to feel softly wrapped in the understanding of how it feels to lose someone you love deeply. Both pain and transcendence are painted in her poems, plus the naturalness and magic of death itself ..".you took your leave breathing like a fish, swimming out into an ocean of darkness and love." She also addresses the guilty urge to look back and question whether she did enough,...
In "No One To Wake, " Marilyn C. O'Leary shares "a bouquet of mourning" the death of her husband of fifty years. This book of poetry is beyond beautif...
