Winter 2025 Newsletter

I’d like to share something personal with you. I’m missing Mariah these days, and I have some small regrets around her death. One is that I often question whether I checked in with her enough about her day-to-day living with ALS. I do know that she was a model of putting ALS on the backburner so she and we could ALWAYS move forward. Still, that thought haunts me sometimes.

I’m currently reading a book, Four Seasons in Rome, by Anthony Doerr, about a family that spends a year in Rome with their newborn twins. The book relates current and historical Rome, and I’m always fascinated by that time connection. But what I’m continually relating to is the author’s awareness of time and place

This year has been a difficult one and I’m sure you feel it too. There has been and continues to be a destructive pandemic which has killed over 1.6 million people worldwide and more than 304,000 in the United States as of this writing.