Speaking of Love

Yesterday, I found myself working at home and was able to accompany Mary Elizabeth to her speech therapy appointment at the local university.  She’s been going to the speech department there for about a year, and while I’ve gone with her to some of the group activities, I’ve never been to an individual speech therapy…

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…

Knowing and Not Knowing

That title sounds like a philosophy course but perhaps I’m feeling philosophical because I had dinner tonight with Michael, who’s writing a paper right now on John Locke. At any rate, “knowing and not knowing ” pretty much sums up my life right now. It struck me today that each time I walk up the 200-year old steps…