Parallel

When Maggie was a mere six weeks old, Mark and I packed up the graduate student life and moved to Maryland where he had accepted a position with the National Institutes of Health as a post-doc. The whopping salary for this illustrious career move in 1987 was $24,000. When we arrived, Mark ended up moving … Read more

Ben

Dear Ben, I saw you standing at the back of the church by yourself when it was still just family there. You looked uncomfortable, like you’d rather not be there. I could relate. I didn’t want to be there either. Before you even introduced yourself I knew who you were. Mark talked about you often … Read more

Currency

Whenever Mark and I would go to a social event and someone would ask him what he did, he would say that he worked at KU Med Center. Then they would ask what he did there and he would say that he worked in the Biochemistry Department. Then they would ask what specifically he did … Read more

Be Not Afraid

I pretty much have lived most of my life afraid. Afraid in grade school of never cracking the code to learn how to read, afraid in high school of never having anyone to eat lunch with in the cafeteria, afraid of never finding a partner in life, afraid I’d never get pregnant, afraid of being … Read more