i know i keep saying this, but it’s hard to know what is happening. really, truly what is happening. so many things are true at once. and so many people are so many things at once. and it is so rare to be just one thing, at one time, doing Continue Reading
one year
Friends, It was one year ago today that an X-ray revealed the mass in Valerie’s lung. She hiked up Silver Star Peak this weekend. Two weeks ago she biked to the coast, 55 miles in one day. This morning she made friends with Odell, the woman next to her in Continue Reading
uplift
I have just returned from a week in Carbondale, Illinois, where I was serving as pit crew for my fabulous glassblowing sister’s MFA thesis show, which was spectacular. While I was away Val met with the doctor and called me with this uplifting news: The CT scan last week shows Continue Reading