David Hoggard: What's Up With Jinni

Two words for Greensboro

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:12:59 GMT

Yesterday, during the 'Commissioner's Comments' portion of the Greensboro Parks & Recreation Commission, I used my time to relate a 'point of personal privilege'. Because the meeting is televised over cable Channel 13, it was the only way I c

The last chapter... sort of.

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 16:33:00 GMT

Today's N&R article about my family and cancer was hard to read, especially the things my children told reporter-turned-friend Maria Jo

Turn the page

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:56:39 GMT

I just returned from taking Jinni to her last radiation treatment at the Cancer Center. She has absorbed everything they threw at her as is now cancer free.

Although the people that work there are just the nicest folks you would ever

Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:55:43 GMT

One year ago today...

The cancer year

Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:31:07 GMT

Marking the end of her breast cancer cure, the last of Jinni's 35 radiation treatments will be administered this coming Thursday. The day before, November 2nd, will mark the one year anniversary of her diagnosis.

After a

Jinni's Journal Part VII

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:34:53 GMT

Jinni starts seven weeks of radiation today which is where she leaves off in the latest version of Jinni's Journal. Her 7th submission in the o

How time flies...

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:15:30 GMT

Twenty-one years is a long time unless you have spent it with someone you truly love. Happy anniversary my love, my girlfriend, my Jinni.

I suppose that one of the benefits and curses of having a life that it shared by so ma

Ups and downs

Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:03:30 GMT

I've been on many roller coasters over the years, but few can compare with the ups and downs experienced while getting cancer out of our lives. Events of this past week will give an idea of what the ride is like.

my Jinni. With her post-su

Moon over Gatlinburg

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 08:26:12 GMT

My brood has been in Gatlinburg, TN since Thursday night attending a family reunion for the paternal side of Jinni's family; namely the Tapscotts and the Burtons. It was great to re-acquaint ourselves and our kids with far-flung uncles, aunts&nbs

Upon returning home

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:07:32 GMT

Yeah, we're back. We left out of Orlando around 6:30p Wednesday after the Wreckers final game (which they lost). During that game Jesse made a wonderful outfield catch so he was pumped up all the way home - we finally arrived on Cypress Str

"I need to see the doctor..."

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:15:35 GMT

Tuesday, Jinni was sick as hell and she just wasn't going to take it any more. After having to leave work and spending the rest of the 90+ degree day wrapped up in a blanket in the living room she decided to call her oncologist for an appoin

Jinni's Journal - Part V

Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:11:58 GMT

Even the sunniest of dispositions can be eclipsed by the effects of chemotherapy. My girlfriend is no exception. The latest N&R installment of Jinni's Jou

Routine

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:29:36 GMT

If you are ever unfortunate enough to have to endure extended chemotherapy, you and your family may find a strange word to describe the treatments: routine. How such a nightmarish procedure which, pre-diagnosis, was hardly ever mentioned in polit

Lessons of charity

Sun, 12 Jun 2005 07:53:42 GMT

In a 'Letter to the Editor' in today's N&R, Maureen Parker lauded the success of

And on the medical front...

Sun, 05 Jun 2005 17:26:02 GMT

Speaking of Jinni...

Cone on HoggFest

Sun, 05 Jun 2005 16:51:51 GMT

Ed Cone's N&R column this morning stands as a witness to all that is good about web based organizing when such organizing

Who won the Stratocaster guitar?

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 04:28:35 GMT

The complete list of HoggFest raffle winners can be found here. But, the story of who won the Strat is kinda justified, in a poetic kind of way... Read on.

The cook sings

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 06:16:49 GMT

Some of you know I used to play piano and sing for a living. This HoggFest video (MPEG) recorded by Don Moore (the other on

Proof of Party

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 04:27:01 GMT

Update: Don Moore captured this magic out-of-tune moment on video - The Hogg sings (MPEG) (If you use IE

And the tote board says....

Tue, 31 May 2005 05:16:18 GMT

$9,171.00...

...was raised through all HoggFest related activities yesterday. Roch Smith, Jr.

More HoggFest... check back for periodic updates

Mon, 30 May 2005 17:59:48 GMT

The numbers:

10:30a - HoggFest organizer extraordinaire Mebane Ham (N&R article) just stopped by our ab

HoggFest after action report

Mon, 30 May 2005 16:15:53 GMT

Every now and again, when I wasn't cooking or gabbing, I would step away from the crowd and go to a far corner of the HoggFest venue and take it all in. It was an amazing event and the Hoggard clan is humbled and grateful beyond words.

HoggFest preliminaries...

Sun, 29 May 2005 16:25:49 GMT

I drove the old oil-drum cooker down to the park across from the Flatiron at 6:30 this morning and fired it up. Good barbeque has to cook a long time and I wanted most of it to be ready by the start time of 1:00 this afternoon.

So far fol