The crystal ball
Let's play a game. Let's pretend that you can see the future. Let us further imagine that you and I were chatting over a cup of coffee a...
Denial and other Egyptian rivers
Dad once again took this morning's FaceTime from his chair, where he had once again been spatulaed from his bed. I was concerned to see...
Spatula, the verb
This morning Mom had to do a bit of fancy camera work to zoom out so I could see the latest accomplishment: Dad sitting in a chair! He...
A window to the world
6:00 a.m. has quickly become my favorite time of day, because that's when I get to see my mom and dad's faces and hear their voices. This...
Chair prayers
Dad is sounding less and less like Darth Vader every day, which, now that I think of it, is kind of a bummer. I should've had him say...
We will beat this.
Hey #TeamEric, check out what team member Eli Katz Castellano made us! Cool, huh? I printed it out and hung it in my cube at work. When I...
Pressure
Carl, Auntie Barb, and I are all safely back to reality--although, at least to me, my St. Paul world of home and work and family seems a...
Lucky
If the events of the past week have taught me anything, it's that I am an unbelievably lucky woman in many different ways. To wit:...
This is what joy looks like.
Half an hour before we left for Heathrow, Dad's medical team took his breathing tube out. I got to hear my dad's voice for thirty...
"Excited" doesn't begin to describe it.
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