The Diagnosis

“Do you think I’ll ever run again?”
“I Hope so.”
Hope is never want you want to hear from a doctor. I want to hear, “Yes, absolutely, of course, you bet.”
Never being much of a glass-half-full kind-of-gal, I take “I hope so” to really mean “No, but I don’t want you to start crying again in my [...]

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Outsmarting the Tooth Fairy

“Mommy wake up, something is wrong with my loose tooth.”
I squinted from out of a dead sleep to see her little mouth, opened wide, inches away from my face. Blinking for focus, I noticed her front tooth was twisted completely sideways, perpendicular to the rest of her teeth. My stomach lurched. It was hideous.
I calmed [...]

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