Residual

I remember telling people after Addy's first month of cancer treatment that she was in remission. To most people remission sounds like a magical reversal from sick back to healthy. You had cancer. You are now in remission. Everything is fine. But remission is an early step in a progression that can last a very long time. It is not an end result. It divides terminal from treatable, not healthy from sick. It may even define…

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Introductions

I binge-watched a lot of British period dramas over my holiday break. I should probably be embarrassed by how much time I spent tucked in bed with a cup of hot coffee on my nightstand and the iPad balanced on my knees, but I am not. It is still 2020 after all. I do not know if gentility still has this inducement in the present day, but a characteristic of the noble class long ago seemed…

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