Hand in hand, just as we departed ways 11 months earlier, we reconnected. Travis has been home for nearly six weeks! We celebrated our anniversary TOGETHER and shared Christmas with family. Seeing my family reconnect and embrace him was purely bliss! But getting to our family’s reunification was a long and tumultuous path. I never […]
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Travis Update
Let’s talk about one of my favorite humans and explore his experiences thus far!! For a short period of time, Travis was moved upstairs. You may recall, Travis started out in an open dorm type housing unit that had an open room holding up to 60 occupants. Prior to a planned shakedown that housing unit […]
Toot Your Own Horn
Today we laid to rest my grandfather who preferred to be addressed as Gramps. Gramps had a bit of a rough start to life, and his parents weren’t confident he would survive very long after birth. His resilience was palpable and what unfolded was an incredibly full life of 96 years and 47 days between […]