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Have you ever taken a multi-day road trip with a cat, a dog, and a toddler? I’ve done it twice now, and surprisingly, it’s not as bad as it seems! (Admittedly, I can say that because I have an extremely helpful husband.) Back in May 2018, our family drove from Southfield, Michigan to Gulf Breeze,…
This post is part of a series of journal entries written throughout my mother’s two-and-a-half-year battle with cancer. You can read part 1 here, and part 2 here. August 30, 2018 Two and a half years had passed since my mother’s diagnosis, and a whirlwind of other life events had transpired in that time. By…
I always thought that “joy” was such a trivial word. Like many, I thought it was an over-simplified synonym for happiness. I often heard it spouted by over-zealous Christians who, to me, were the same people who stuck their heads in the sand at the first sign of any kind of unrest. Joy was an…
This post is part of a series of journal entries written throughout my mother’s two-and-a-half-year battle with cancer. You can read Part 1 here. December 28, 2017 More than a year after my mother’s visit to Detroit, she was still alive and well. Though she had grown weaker, more forgetful and confused, and the cancer…
