Judging from the avalanche of supportive calls, texts and comments my last post generated, I must have sounded alarmingly blue! In truth I was feeling pretty glum and am so grateful for the collective pick-me-up you all sent. Physician friends emailed to see if we needed a second opinion, one friend sent uplifting quotes from Shakespeare (followed by a...
All publications, even excellent ones, are forced to publish the occasional correction or clarification. According to Ava, my article yesterday requires multiple corrections and clarifications. Here is the story, retold in Ava’s own words: Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. It’s not like I purposely ran into a tree!! And I don’t “let out blood curdling screams for trivial...
This trip has been amazing, maybe too amazing. It was probably time for Murphy’s Law to catch up with us. Unfortunately, Murphy arrived in the form of Ava skiing into a tree in Big Sky, Montana. Short story: nothing irreparable, we are very lucky; a broken patella (kneecap), broken nose and soft tissue damage to both knees. Longer story; our trip to Big Sky had...