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June 10, 2025
My Twenty Years with MS: A Lesson in Perseverance
On June 10, 2005, I heard the words, “You have MS.” I was twenty-eight years old, numb from the waist down, terrified, and completely…
Writing
Essays on MS, family, faith, and the writing life.
Personal essays drawing universal meaning from lived experience — twenty years of stories, and counting.
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May 30, 2025
Manifestation Above the Clouds
I’ll be honest. We weren’t exactly excited about another long, winding drive the day after doing the Road to Hana. But our time in…
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May 13, 2025
Uncle Joe’s Last Drink
In Weymouth, they called him Joe Horse. His real name was Joseph Cavallo, but nobody called him that. Not at Denly’s, not on Lake…
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May 8, 2025
The Breakfast of a Lifetime
We were sitting around a small table at my mom’s favorite spot, Cupz and Crepes, when something hit me. It was just the five…
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May 1, 2025
The Story Deserves to Be Told
I almost quit. After months of writing, editing, sharing vulnerable stories from my life, and getting nothing but silence from literary agents, I sat…
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April 24, 2025
The Day the Music Died
The Day My Son Discovered MF DOOM Slept on My Couch Part Two Mason sat there staring at me, still stunned. “Wait… you’re serious?”…
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April 15, 2025
The Day My Son Discovered MF DOOM Slept on My Couch
It started with a sound. A familiar bassline drifted from my son Mason’s room, low and looped, laid-back but haunting. I was across the…
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April 8, 2025
The Road to Hana and the Aloha Mindset
Some stories don’t need embellishment. They write themselves through the rawness of the moment, the stress, the beauty, the kindness of strangers, and the…
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April 3, 2025
Cheating Death at Fearing Pond
In June 2024, I flew back to Massachusetts with my sons, Mason and Colby, for a 72-hour whirlwind trip to celebrate the Boston Celtics’…
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April 1, 2025
Where She Lives Now
When I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, my mind drifted back to a memory I hadn’t thought about in years. It was the spring…