My Sister, the Great

This past weekend, Lovie and I went down to Atlanta to be part of the M3Summit — the first ever conference dedicated solely to blogging men. Throughout the weekend, I gained incredible insight from many experts in the ways of social media and or fatherhood. But the most important meeting I would attend happened far, [...]

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Tidy Little Boxes

This is the fifth post which chronicles my sister’s battle with cancer. * * * “Do you know just how incredible your sister is?” I stared awkwardly at the nurse who had asked me this seemingly rhetorical question. And she stared right back with big brown eyes that sparkled with hope. They told me she [...]

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Mind Over Matter

This post is a continuation from the last three. * * * I don’t think the nighttime nurse liked us very much. She had a valid reason. Generally speaking, shaking martinis in a hospital room is a no-no. But we didn’t care. Not because we’re raging alcoholics, but simply because that’s what we do. We [...]

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The Beautiful Fight

This post is the third installment of Holliday’s story. Part I is called The Club and part II is called The Class. * * * Early one morning in 2002, my brother picked me up from the airport and drove me to the hospital to see my dad who had been unresponsive since the afternoon before. His [...]

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The Class

This is a continuation of my last post, The Club. * * * I didn’t take much. Everything fit into a small backpack, even the laptop which I carefully got out and placed inside the gray plastic tub. As I watched it glide away, I was overtaken with déjà vu. It was just like the [...]

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