Thoughts on the summer solstice

IT’S BEEN A VERY LONG TIME since I’ve written a regular post to this blog, and I apologize for being away for so long.  On this, the summer solstice and longest day of the year, I thought I would provide an update.  Our lives continue on with school activities, movies and work.  Mary Elizabeth continues…

Gabby Giffords

Today I saw along with everybody else the news that Gabby Giffords resigned from congress to focus on her recovery from being shot in the head a year ago.  In many ways, her recovery felt very familiar to us, which shouldn’t be too surprising since both Mary Elizabeth’s and Rep. Giffords’ cases involve recovering from…