Author Archives: Michelle

From Michelle.  15 December, 2010. Dearest Friends and Family, What a lot has happened since I wrote last!  I woke up several days ago to find that the flood warnings I had so casually noted on the nightly news now … Continue reading →

From Michelle.  30 November, 2010. Dear friends and family, The holiday season is upon us, heralded this year in a most unusual fashion by snow! The week of Thanksgiving found us snowed in, the children home from school for days.  … Continue reading →

From Michelle.  17 November, 2010. Dearest friends and family, What a difference a week makes.  Thanks to your amazing prayers and a generous helping of grace, Steve is doing much better.  While his shoulder is still frozen and he continues … Continue reading →

From Michelle.  9 November, 2010. Dear friends and family, This has been a hard week.  Overall, this last month has been a rewarding uphill climb, leading almost daily to fresh new vistas, greater capacity, more hope.  But there were bound … Continue reading →

From Michelle.  2 November, 2010. Dear friends and family, I woke up this morning with a sense of incompletion.  In my rush to press “send” I missed something in my last post.  What I missed was all of the joy. … Continue reading →

From Michelle.  November 1, 2010. Dear friends and family, It is already November.  The trees here are a riot of colors, and even the bamboo planted around our house is shifting shades to match this cold, wet season.  Yesterday we … Continue reading →

From Michelle.  October 20, 2010. Dear friends and family, How I have longed to write following last Friday’s benefit concert!  Steve and I are still basking in the afterglow, and will be for many months.  Walking into that room full … Continue reading →

From Michelle.  October 13, 2010. Dear friends and family, Our marathon drags on, in all it’s glorious monotony: the daily regimens of pills, stretches, therapies, bed baths, bowel programs, and so on, not to mention the predictable rhythms of life … Continue reading →

From Michelle.  4 October, 2010.  3 p.m. Dear friends and family, I confess that I have been stumped this last week about what to write.  How does one follow up Steve’s first steps, the high of those miraculous stumbles that … Continue reading →

From Michelle.  26 September, 2010  9 a.m. Dear friends and family, Another week has flown by with its own unique set of challenges and triumphs.  It has been a landmark few days… but I’ll start at the beginning. Last week … Continue reading →