Jacob.
One year ago (almost exactly), I was emerging from my six weeks of hospitalization and embracing the beauty of life renewed after so many days of illness and so many surgeries and so many questions and so many doctors. In the aftermath of The Summer of Hospitals, my goal for Summer 2015 has been to…
She picked her outfit well. It was the most beautiful of dresses and the most perfect of colors. The teal complimented her eyes with exquisite precision and somehow made her already beautiful hair even more delightful. It seemed fitting, really: beautiful sunshine, beautiful dress, beautiful girl. But she was standing in the middle of…
With (almost) more paint on their clothes than had landed on the canvas, Mom had one more message to share with her kiddos. While they were distracted by a few more chocolate donut holes, she painted a few letters letters…one word…and a quick arrow. Its not easy to create art on a moving,…
Over the river, through the woods, past the ocean bay, along a stretch land barely wider than the road, and almost into the ocean at the end of the Spit. We stumbled out of our vehicles– all seven from their van, one me from my Civic, and one Grandma from her car – and started…
I would imagine that being in love must be something like dancing in the sunset on the rooftop: soaring high above the mundane lives of everyone else, watching them trod to work, but not really caring about the traffic jam that’s causing stress. The sun is brighter, you’re soaring higher, and you’re on a completely…