LENNIE & I – THE STORY OF US – Chapter 5

The sun had just risen and was streaming in across the bed.  The fragrant orange and white lei that Lennie had placed around my neck at the airport was hanging on the lampshade and I could feel the cool ocean breeze filtering through the jalousie windows with the...

IN MEMORIUM

    In Loving memory of Lennie who passed away one year ago today. Gone, but never forgotten. Love, Kathryn www.kathrynsmith.com

BIRTHDAYS AND FORGIVENESS

Trying to stay positive is sometimes hard work. Today was Lennie’s birthday.  He would have been 64.  It was one of those melancholy days when I kept thinking back to when he had turned 61.  I had only known him for several months and had decided to throw him a...

LENNIE & I – THE STORY OF US – Chapter 4

It was eleven a.m. in the morning in Vancouver.  I could feel the panic rising in me as I dialed Lennie’s number.  Vancouver International airport was huge; bigger than anything I had imagined.  Because I was still in Canada, I was told that I had to pick up my...

VALENTINE’S DAY 2012

Today is Valentine’s Day.  It is one of the few sunny days that there has been here on the windward side of O’ahu in the Hawai’ian Islands. I am sitting in the backyard of the home that I lived in with Lennie. It was 3 years ago today that I first...

LENNIE & I – THE STORY OF US – Chapter 3

“I am courting you Kathryn.”  Lennie was at the Ala Moana Hotel standing out side of Rumors Night Club.  In the background I could hear the music playing.  It was a duet between Nat King Cole and his daughter Natalie Cole.  It was a recording...