Category Archives: Marck Nystrom

Doing just a little bit more…

Standing back and regarding her handiwork, the woman who has ministered to all the medical needs of our family for the past 20 years, proclaimed, “Well, if you can live with those bunions, the scar that you’re going to have on that knee won’t present ANY problem!” The subject of her statement was my own [...]

“You can tell a lady by her handkerchief.”

“Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmas.” Charles Dickens My grandmother, Gertrude Gill My grandmother discovered just how important working outside the home was when my grandfather retired from a successful career in construction engineering. He established a studio in the front bedroom of their Philadelphia duplex and painted with a devotion that filled [...]