I’m not sure which time it happened — whether it was on the occasion of Sophie’s first open heart surgery, when she was four months old, or the second, when she was four years old. We were ushered into a tiny exam room at Phoenix Childrens Hospital — a pre-surgery check, it’s where they put […]

I wanted to write about the science fair today, or maybe how I’m mad at the PTA, but I figure it’s best to get all the really sad stuff off my chest now. The bad pun’s intended, sort of. These days, it’s all about lungs. For a while, in our house, it was all about hearts. […]