No Lifetime in the Pool

I keep looking for the sliver lining in the latest card I’ve been dealt: the happy ending, the Big Lesson. After three weeks, I’m thinking that’s enough time for God to look down and say, “Okay, yeah– so here’s the good part.”
Yesterday, I thought I might be on to it. After two weeks of serious [...]

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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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