A Year of Pluck
How different life has become.
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Vocabulary of Grief
What’s another word for longing?
Hard Conversations
Do you know what you want when it happens to you?
Off-ramps on Life’s Highway
Bumpy road ahead (as far as the eye can see).
I’m still here.
I hope you’ll stay too.
A Memorial for Michael
A few moments from our day of honoring Michael’s life.
Memorial For Michael Chase
Please join us this weekend in person or online to honor Michael’s life.
Impossible Things
Absurd. Outrageous. Intolerable.
Small Things
Tiny moment, big feelings.
Compounding Loss
A final post from 2025, but not the one I thought I’d be writing.
Birthdays and Other Milestones
The first of many more firsts without Michael
You’re Invited
Please join us as we honor Michael’s life.
Our Beloved Michael
A life well lived.
Star Day
At the start of 2024 I bought a Moleskine daily journal and decided to end each day recording the things I had done. It wasn’t meant to be a top secret diary of my thoughts and feelings, it was just a place to keep track of how I filled
Five Days (and counting) of Intubation
A week of facing some of the biggest difficulties yet.
Where is this going?
An update with all we don’t know yet.
Holding on
An Update from Intensive Care
Please Breathe
Michael is in serious condition.
After the Storm
No faking here, we’re barely making it.
Raining. Pouring. Flooding.
Once again feeling like we can’t catch a break.
100 Days Post-Transplant
Achievement Unlocked!
Thoughts On Reaching Out
(Spoiler: Please do!)
Goodness Running After Us
Let’s talk about some good stuff!
New Phase: Day One
We’re out of the Isolation Ward and into the Out-patient Clinic. It’s been a bumpy transition.