Today is my mother's birthday and my mind is filled with memories of frosted angel food cakes and flowers and books -- so many of those -- and prayers and courage and kindness. My mother, Marjorie Good, died this year on January 2nd. Her two battles with cancer were the most intimate I have witnessed...

I'm always wondering, what crazy new way can I begin a story. Well, here we go...

DATELINE: Banesville, New York. May 3.
Bonnie Sue Bomgartner, Banesville's soon-to-be 67th Apple Blossom queen, let loose a stream of projectile vomiting in the high school cafeteria...