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I know many of you have been looking at the calendar, and I wanted to give a brief update about Jessica’s condition. The surgery went well, and she is out of the ICU and in a regular med/surg bed at the hosptial. She has been eating chicken strips and french fries and drinking as much…
On dreams I wish I didn’t have
The other night I had a dream that Jessica was lost, and though I kept calling for her, I knew she was never coming back. I hate this dream. Sometimes it goes away for a while, but it is never gone. In a few weeks Jessica undergoes more testing. In February when we scheduled the…
On making my escape
The first one comes in the fall of Jessica’s junior year, a letter from the admissions office of Kansas State University. I don’t immediately recognize what it is. Once I do, for a moment hope flaps its vain and tinsel wings. Maybe it’s true. Maybe my daughter can go to college, and get a great…
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A Thanksgiving Story
(An update to my annual Thanksgiving post) I love Thanksgiving, which I think is the most underrated holiday in the year. It got eaten by Christmas about twenty years ago, so people are already stressed about what’s going to go under the tree when they haven’t even had their annual allotment of pumpkin pie yet. I…
