In the Storm

I spent the day, a week ago, sitting beside a hospital bed. Of my son’s 1,387 days on earth, he’s spent about 68 of them in a hospital.  There’s nothing quite like waiting beside a cot in the NICU, where your tiny child lies, to teach you about life.  It’s …

Perspective

It’s funny the days that stick out in my memory.  For as amazing as it is to have a day go smoothly, to have kids that cooperate and are cheerful, to have time to accomplish things and maybe even time to rest…it’s usually the harder, stickier, challenging days that I …