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Coaching…
I haven’t blogged in a while. Life has gotten busy. Teaching, covering Spring sports, Daylight-Savings Time change, the boys’ activities… Ashley would have this obstacle to posting as well. Life happens… Luckily, I have Spring break coming up because I have had a lot on my mind lately and have plenty to write.But this past…
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Remembering Markham
If you have spent any time with Dr. Markham, there is no doubt you have a story. Mr. Markham My story or at least the story of my adult life, actually begins with Mr. Markham. In June 2004, I interviewed for an athletic training job in Gulf Breeze, Florida with a national physical therapy company.…
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St. Valentine’s Day
I wasn’t planning to blog today, but couldn’t sleep. So, this morning I wake up at 3:00 am, as I often do… This has been an odd side effect of the past year or so. Often in the middle of the night I would get up to check on Ashley and I would look at…
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Choosing Happy is Hard
Choosing happy is hard. Extremely hard. I know it is for me right now. And I know it was for Ashley. Sometimes I wondered how she could make the choice to be happy, to pull herself out of sadness when she was in pain, frustrated, too weak to be herself… Now I ask myself the…
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A Cheerful Heart is Good Medicine
It’s been difficult for me to write this blog entry. Not because I don’t have anything to say, but how do you do justice to a sport that meant so much to Ashley and was so much a part of my life the last 14 years (25 years for Ashley) in one blog entry. This…
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Yay! You’re Home.
Several years ago, when Fischer was about 1 1/2, I came home early because a game got cancelled. I opened up the door and he hopped off the couch and came running to me (Fischer was walking at 10 months) and said Daddy! and Ashley said “Yay, Daddy’s home.” I said, “you don’t know how…