Healing Thomas With Our Thoughts

This morning I visited Thomas Walsh at his website https://www.carepages.com/carepages/Thomasgettingbetter. Thomas and my nephew Devon are fourteen and became good friends while ski racing but Devon will not be racing with Thomas this winter. Thomas has been diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma, with metastasis to...

Graduating From Eighth Grade

(Devon fishing with his dad, trying on hats and smelling flowers with me while I babysat for him, reading the New Yorker with his mum) I arrived exasperated and late as usual with Tucker clinging to my leg, to my nephew, Devon’s, eighth grade Panel Discussion. He was graduating and turning fourteen in a...