All posts tagged: family

We Never Got Flu Shots. Then the Flu Almost Killed My Husband.

This article originally appeared on Self Magazine online on November 9, 2018.  Healthy people aren’t immune to flu complications. On October 19, 2018 I marched my 36-year-old self to the doc and got a flu vaccine for the first time. Before this year, I’d never considered it. But, a lot of things changed this year. In January 2018, just a few months before, my husband, …

photos & forgiveness

It’s a strange feeling realizing without realizing that your whole life’s story has been a lie – one of those optical illusions you’ve spent decades thinking is a bunny and you find out it’s been a duck all along. You’re never able to find your footing, always feeling slightly off-kilter, like an existential inner ear infection. The image above showed up in my inbox last …