It is all too easy to feed off of birthdays, anniversaries, and other meaningful demarcations of time. Continue reading Parallels and Contrasts
Category: Local Color
Homecoming
On Wednesday, May 25, Colin boarded a plane in Memphis and finally made his way home. Continue reading Homecoming
Survivor: Target House
There is no immunity challenge, and Jeff Probst doesn’t sit us around a campfire to discuss who is next to go, but living here is beginning to feel like a warped version of the Survivor reality show. Continue reading Survivor: Target House
Happy Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is billed as an opportunity for fathers and children to express their gratitude for the other 364 days a year that mothers devote to their families. Continue reading Happy Mother’s Day
Winding Down*
Our family’s time at St. Jude is drawing to a close. Continue reading Winding Down*
Operation Radiation
Colin’s final radiation treatments found us at Methodist Central, an adult hospital not far from St. Jude in midtown Memphis. Continue reading Operation Radiation
Reset Button
Colin’s second week of radiation was grueling: vomiting, utter fatigue, dangerous aspiration and an unexpected stay in the hospital. Continue reading Reset Button
Ode to Lady Liberty
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled [brain tissue] yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my [high-energy photon] lamp beside the golden door!” Continue reading Ode to Lady Liberty
Home Sweet St. Jude
Life doesn’t offer real do-overs, but there are times when an experience follows the parallel track of something that has come before. Continue reading Home Sweet St. Jude
The Jury Foreman Speaks
When juries wrap up quickly with a verdict, it can be a good sign or a bad sign, but it usually means that they have found the suspect not guilty. Continue reading The Jury Foreman Speaks