• Not This Boy

    Jack’s classmate, the little boy for whom we had the blood drive, is not doing well.  His liver is reacting negatively to the chemo he had before the marrow transplant.  His tummy is…

  • Trajectory

    Do you ever feel like you’ve been gently, insistently redirected?  Herded.  Shepherded.  There is a distinction, but in either case, direction from an outside source is implicit.  A sheep-i-ness is implied.  I have…

  • My Pride, My Joy

    The past two nights, I’ve had to take Jack to stay with friends for the evening while I putter about doing law school activities (the husband and baby were out of town).  The…

  • Fairy tale

    Once upon a time, back in the days before my marriage, I still lived with my oldest younger sister.  We lived together in a tiny grayish house in Hillsborough, North Carolina, a town…