February 28, 2026Sherry and I did not enter her medical crisis as matching sisters. We entered it as the people we had…
February 23, 2026Some days are just hard. Not dramatically hard. Not crisis hard. Just the regular, unglamorous, nobody-is-going-to-write-a-memoir-about-this kind of hard that…
February 21, 2026A patient is a person you meet inside a medical moment. A sister is a person whose whole history walks…
February 19, 2026There is a particular kind of woman who gets dressed in the morning with everyone else in mind. She checks…
February 14, 2026There was one sentence underneath every conversation about Sherry’s diagnosis. I do not think I said it to her. I…
February 12, 2026Someone decided at some point that comfort and effort were opposites. I don't know who made that decision or when…
February 7, 2026Sherry was the kind of student who could make a 99 sound like an investigation. Where did the other point…
January 31, 2026We had a family cruise scheduled for January 2024. Then Sherry was diagnosed in December, and the calendar split into…
January 26, 2026Graduation was supposed to be a Thursday in May. I'd thought about it more than I'd admitted to anyone. The…
January 22, 2026People assume medical training makes medical fear smaller. Sometimes it only makes the fear more specific. When Sherry was diagnosed…
