Leaves on the Current - the recovery continues
It will be 8 weeks this evening since we got the news about my wife's cancer. Tomorrow evening will be the end of the 2nd 2-week cycle of chemotherapy, with another treatment-free week about to occur. It seems a good point at which to reflect on where we are, and where we hope we are heading.
Most of all, the past two days mark a major achievement.
My wife is by training a cultural historian. Since before I met her, she has had a strong interest in Virginia, in part because her mother's mother's family originates from Central Virginia. In high school she became fascinated by George Mason and simply because of that interest wrote a detailed paper about this not as well known yet highly significant Founding Father. When we moved from near Philadelphia because she had decided she really wanted to live in the DC area after a summer of a fellowship at the National Endowment for the Arts, she was insistent that we live in the Old Dominion and not DC or Maryland - which during my teaching career in Maryland gave me a somewhat longer commute. Her award-winnin dissertation is on the social role of African-American dance in the pre-Civil War greater Chesapeake, which obviously focused on Virginia. We were married in an Orthodox Church in Maryland, but held our reception in an historic mansion near Leesburg VA. When we have considered moving, it has realistically only been to other places in Virginia - Charlottesville, Old
Most of all, the past two days mark a major achievement.
My wife is by training a cultural historian. Since before I met her, she has had a strong interest in Virginia, in part because her mother's mother's family originates from Central Virginia. In high school she became fascinated by George Mason and simply because of that interest wrote a detailed paper about this not as well known yet highly significant Founding Father. When we moved from near Philadelphia because she had decided she really wanted to live in the DC area after a summer of a fellowship at the National Endowment for the Arts, she was insistent that we live in the Old Dominion and not DC or Maryland - which during my teaching career in Maryland gave me a somewhat longer commute. Her award-winnin dissertation is on the social role of African-American dance in the pre-Civil War greater Chesapeake, which obviously focused on Virginia. We were married in an Orthodox Church in Maryland, but held our reception in an historic mansion near Leesburg VA. When we have considered moving, it has realistically only been to other places in Virginia - Charlottesville, Old