It was the message that I dreaded, but one that I knew could always be a possibility. Kris, I’m at Cerro Alto and I crashed my bike, I broke my shoulder or something and it’s really bad. Call me. <Insert frantic, scared, panicked and painful intonation.> I called him back. No answer. Bad cell service? [...]

I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried. It all started with news from my grandma. She had broken her elbow and had surgery. None of us really gave it much thought because she’s tough and relatively healthy (so we thought). But when we got the call that she had been running a fever [...]

I don’t think of my family as getting older. I mean, I just had my 44th birthday and I’m certainly getting older. But I don’t see my family that way. Heck, my dad now gets social security, and I think that puts my grandparents close to or over their 80′s. <Note to self: Do some [...]