I’ve been blogging since 2007. That’s the year I started Deepish Thoughts, a site to keep friends and family up to date on my life, as well as on the bizarre and hilarious things Rob said. Which were many. When Scarlett was born in 2010, I shifted my attention to The Scarlett Letters, where I posted pictures and wrote to her about her life. And now, obviously, I’ve moved here to record my thoughts and experiences living with ALS.

I can’t keep up with two blogs, let alone three, so each time a new blog is introduced, an old one gets ignored. Or, let’s say it gets its wings, because that just sounds nicer. The blogs mark everything significant that has happened in my life over the course of more than seven years. Engagement, marriage, cross-country move, baby. The death of my beloved Papa, my dear brother-in-law, and several pets. It’s just a life, like any other. But I’m glad, now more than ever, that I chronicled it.

My story, with its unexpected trajectory, might make some people sad. But not me. I look back at those old posts and sometimes I just laugh. As I read about the traveling I’ve done, I find that I’m not mourning the loss of my abilities. Instead, I’m feeling insanely lucky to have seen so many different places. It appears that my past—at least the past I’ve chosen to document, and this is an important distinction—makes me happy. Though I’m not proud of all of it. Read More>