By Laura McAlister Journal EditorAfter running their practice in a small office for more than 20 years, Dr. Hugh Washington and wife Patti decided it was time to hit the road – literally.About a year ago, the team – Hugh is a veterinarian and Patti a pet groomer – decided to get rid of their Hoover office and trade it in for a van full time. Instead of patients coming … [Read more...]
Building BRIDGES
By Laura McAlister Journal EditorA childhood illness can take its toll on the entire family. Dr. David Askenazi knows. He’s fortunate that his own three children are healthy, but those he spends time with on a daily basis as an assistant professor of pediatrics with Children’s Hospital Division of Nephrology and Transplantation aren’t so lucky.David’s patients come … [Read more...]
Casting Their Purls
By Laura McAlister Journal EditorWhen Roz Feigelson helped start a knitting group at Levite Jewish Community Center, she was doing it more to help herself. But five years later, she and members of the Circle of Life Knitting Society have helped countless others.The Circle of Life meets once a week at the LJCC in Mountain Brook to knit scarves and shawls for cancer … [Read more...]
A Walk to Remember
By Laura McAlister Journal EditorEven though Cindi Routman has three children, Mother’s Day isn’t about her. It will always be about her own mother, the late Loyce Dunn Caughlin.Loyce died of ovarian cancer in 2006 at the age of 76. Since then, Cindi has pledged to honor her mother’s memory by raising awareness about the disease, the fifth leading cause of cancer death … [Read more...]
It’s a Small World
By Laura McAlister Journal EditorTom and Charlotte Laggy have learned a lot from their many travels. For instance, if something looks good, that still doesn’t mean you want to eat it, and air conditioning really is a commodity.But perhaps the greatest lesson they’ve learned is that to really understand different places, you have to immerse yourself in that culture. … [Read more...]