IT WAS A BLUSTERY, RAINY DAY 19 years ago when Mary Elizabeth and I were married on September 18, 1993. We had planned an outdoor wedding, but luckily had a fallback plan in case of inclement weather. Mary Elizabeth grew up on the grounds of an 86-acre estate, which had been turned into Mill Neck…
THE CLOUDS SAILED ACROSS THE AZURE SKY as the late afternoon sun brushed them with a mellow midsummer gold. From the porch on the house in Rockport, I had a panoramic view of the Atlantic ocean and the July sky. We had left New York a couple of days before and had been visiting friends…
A COMA IS A FUNNY THING – well, not a funny-ha-ha kind of thing – but it wasn’t what I expected. After her stroke on December 5, 2009, Mary Elizabeth was in a coma for much of December and January – except when she wasn’t.
Today was another quiet day for Mary Elizabeth. Although the nurses said she was responsive earlier in the day, I wasn’t able to get any reaction from her. She was far from sleepy however, spending most of the time I was there moving her left arm around, and attempting to free herself from some of the…
Moved in Sundry Places 