Mailbag - June 2024

TRIP KEEPSAKES Chinni, Ninni, and their mother Suparna love the vibrant colors of India, displayed here in a few mementos from their July 2023 trip: a colorful table runner and a trinket box Suparna received as a gift. (Photo: lawellphoto.com)

A cherished treasure 

Dear Cathy,

Reading the article, Aunties of India [by Cathy Gordon, May 2024] was such a heartwarming experience! I cannot believe how well my memories were woven with the visit to my aunts. You wrote it so beautifully and captured my emotions not just from the past year’s trip, but from different stages of my life. You have given my family a treasure to cherish. Thank you! You all are wonderful. 

Suparna Vashisht

A joyful recovery

Thank you, Buzz Magazines, for all the ways you help grow community spirit in Houston!

I live in an area not within your circulation boundaries. I know I can occasionally find copies in a few Walgreens drugstores. Imagine my surprise when a friend who lives in the Memorial area showed me a picture of my daughter (her goddaughter) on the back page of your April magazine. There she was, holding her daughter just a few months after life-changing brain surgery.

Although the picture was part of an advertisement for Texas Children’s Hospital, I couldn't help connecting their choice to advertise with The Buzz, with how incredibly family-oriented and community-oriented your publication is. Maddie had a stroke just before she was born and over time, the areas of the brain where the blood supply was blocked died away. Eventually, along with some physical weakness, a seizure disorder became uncontrollable and required separation of the right from the left side of her brain. Many Houston friends and neighbors helped us provide her and her family with round-the-clock care and emotional support as she prepared, underwent and recuperated from her brain surgery. 

Seeing her picture in your publications has been a wonderful way for those of us involved to celebrate her successes. I especially treasure the moments when I have been able to gift those persons involved with their own copy. Many, many thanks to the staff for generously sharing some extras with us!

Now that I am aware of your excellent publication, I am a regular subscriber to your online version. I can hardly wait to see someone else I know appear in your pages.

Laurel Johnson

A special trip

Hi Tracy,

Thank you for your fabulous article [Roots Revisited: Unearthing family ties in Greece] in the May West University Buzz. You did such a wonderful job capturing the essence of Patmos, the family traditions and the very special trip we were able to take together. Thank you again for including us in this issue. We greatly appreciate all of your hard work on this piece!

Natalie

Single Lost Glove

A beautiful article in The West University Buzz. I don’t usually read this magazine, but it opened to the photo of Adam Elkhadem [Adam Elkhadem’s Legacy by Michelle Casas Groogan, May 2024] and I felt like something special was going on. I am glad to know about the foundation in Adam’s memory: www.ajefoundation.org. I send my love and respect to Adam’s family and friends as we remember him.

Gretchen Penthesilea

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