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The Long Road to Recovery

News reports the other day indicated that Gabrielle Giffords spoke for the first time since the shooting and asked for toast. I am happy for her, but this news is also upsetting to me. These amazing recoveries make me think about my mom's head injury and the choices I made on her behalf. Choices that did not lead to a miraculous recovery, but ended in her death on her fifth day in neuro ICU at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis just over ten years ago. She had gotten knocked to the pavement accidentally getting out of a friend's car to go to work at the Sally's Beauty Supply in my hometown. She was air-lifted to St. Louis while they were trying to reach me at work. But I had gone at lunchtime to a public library, where I was writing an introduction to a lesson about the book of Job. One moment is was writing about Job . The next moment I was Job, wondering why life had sucker-punched me. With my mom's non-recovery, I find it often bothers me when people do recover, p

My First Animated Video: Accosted by a Man in a Bright Orange Shirt

I finally found a use for an old script I had written one year not long after my wife returned from a trip to see her family. She discovered while she was away that I had gone shopping and bought myself a bright Tommy Hilfiger orange shirt. The orange in the shirt was so bright it was almost criminal. The shirt inspired this little sketch. http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11155784/ I still have the shirt somewhere, I think, although she may have thrown it away.