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The next step in Hannah's acceptance to PA school was to actually visit  Montgomery, Alabama.  In fact, it wasn't until I needed to buy plane tickets that I actually knew where in Alabama Faulkner was.  I had driven through Alabama multiple times as a child in the backseat of my grandparents' car on the journey from Lubbock to Tallahassee, but I had no lasting memory of any of it.  I was delighted to see that it sits very near the panhandle of Florida which meant I had some understanding of the people there. Hannah, however, does not ;-) Everyone she has spoken to has mentioned one of two things: (1) the weather and what an adjustment that will be for a Michigander, or (2) the culture shock she will experience, living in the deep South.  I have tried to explain to her, what it's like being a woman in the South, and it will be interesting seeing how Hannah adapts, or doesn't.  She likes being unique, and she might not change at all, but I personally love Sou...

 As a mother's day gift to you mama, I thought I would chronicle down the story of how my DnD group met because, as I've said before, it was too incidental to be a coincidence.  As some of you may know, this past semester in school, I was feeling a little out of sorts socially. Since I had just finished my violin recital and all lesson credits I needed to graduate, I had TONS of new found free time on my hands that I have never had as a college student. You wouldn't think not having to practice for an hour a day and lessons once a week would free up time, but it really did. I now had hours in a day left over after finishing homework. This, combined with the fact that while on my mission I discovered I liked people, made me start trying to have more of a social life. I went to club night at BYU for the first time ever (board game club), I started having more regular lunch dates with my friends, I even regularly attended church activities, which in turn got me my first semi-l...

It's been THREE and a half years since John, Glo and I have been diving anywhere, let alone Grand Cayman.  I keep a detailed dive log book, and the last two entries from 2018 record John getting the news that his privileges were being revoked at Chelsea.  In the three and a half years since then: John fought the hospital for ten months in legal proceedings and lost. He lost his job. We packed up and sold our home in Dexter, not knowing what would become of our lives. We lived in a two bedroom apartment for almost a year. Glo served a mission. John found a new job in Dearborn ("the best job I've ever had"), and started working for Geisinger in PA again We bought a home with a pool. Hannah graduated from BYU, lived with us for a year and a half (serving as RS president in the AA YSA ward), and begins PA school in the fall. I wish I could go back to myself, standing on our front porch crying into the shoulder of Amber Barney when she just hugged me and held me, and tell ...