This is just to say: Today was a good day. Today there was hiking, and waterfalls, and dogs running joyfully up and down the trail, and wild irises. We switchbacked and scrambled and climbed with a posse of friends and dogs up to Angel’s Rest, a rocky spine overlooking the Continue Reading
debrarian
puppies are helpful
This is the first meeting between Tuley (who is now one and a half) and Molly, our friends’ new puppy. Tuley frolics with puppy Molly
Bike-a-thon!
Good heavens. Some people just can’t sit still for 5 seconds. Give them a day off from graduate school and the next thing you know they’ve organized a ginormous bike-a-thon in your honor. You know what I mean? My fantastic sister has decided that it’s making her crazy over there Continue Reading
avoiding the ironic
Val took a friend the airport Wednesday. “Drive safely,” I told her, waving from the porch. “Don’t do anything ironic.”
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
This will be a quick and informational post, with details and impressions to follow: We met the medical oncologist today, Dr. L, and I’m happy to report she struck us as sharp, personable and committed. She was patient with our questions and, like us, interested in pursuing aggressive treatment. (She Continue Reading
fear, hope and roasted beet soup
One thing about this is the fear. For me so far it’s been a fear of many flavors, but it never ever quite goes away. It sucks at the shoreline of my heart, rearranging my guts, cresting up menacingly and sinking back to build the surge all over again. My Continue Reading
small mercies
Salut, mes amis. Guess what? I have some news that is not horrible! Normally I like to make a proper anecdote, with suspense and story arc, but I won’t make you live through the whole day with us. I’ll give it to you straight up: Val’s PET scan, in the Continue Reading
snippets and faith
Some things that are happening right now: Val is laughing on the couch as Favor tells a story about a time her head was mistaken for a beaver. Grapes and split-pea soup and wine are being consumed (by disparate people). The dog is asleep with her fuzzy muzzle flattened against Continue Reading
the heart tree
Joining Val’s “Helping Hands” calendar
Lovely people, We’ve added a link for Val’s Helping Hands Calendar, to the right. Once I get it set up this will be a spot that shows what sort of help we need and when (rides, meals, serenades outside our windows, hand-painted Italian butter dishes, pot-bellied pigs, you know the Continue Reading