Saturday, December 26, 2009
Heads Will Roll
Friday, December 25, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
The Day Before the Day
And apparently still not amused by his electrical doppelgänger (which is just a fancy word for “evil twin”) in front of the house. Bizarro Superman? Serena? Maybe we just need a goatee so you know which one is which.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
The Gift
Saturday, November 28, 2009
In This Light and On This Evening
Friday, November 27, 2009
Perfect Symmetry
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Thank U
Friday, November 20, 2009
Straight to Number One
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Counting Down the Days
Friday, November 13, 2009
Shake the Disease
Jake’s chemo pills arrived by UPS today. This is the third dose of Lomustine (CCNU). One 40mg capsule and two 10mg capsules. He never has any obvious side effects so I don’t mind giving it to him. We’ll do a blood test in one week to see what’s going on inside.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
In The Clear
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Your Painted Smile
One of our younger neighbors, Gina, was drawing pet portraits for free. Well, of course we’re going to participate. While she was working on her artwork, Jake stole a piece of banana bread from her table. I suppose that was his “sitting fee”. The finished piece is fantastic. Don’t you love how she even captured his leg brace?
Saturday, October 31, 2009
(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Same Direction
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Pictures of You
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Doubleplusgood
Driving Away From Home (Wicked Weather for Walking)
Denver Parks #25
Denver Parks #24
Friday, October 2, 2009
Have You Heard the News
Friday, September 11, 2009
Mr. Roboto
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Happy Anniversary
This week, he saw his oncologists at the CSU Animal Cancer Center for restaging. The official diagnosis: RESOLUTION OF TUMORS! They said the leg looked great. His lymph node has decreased in size. The ultrasound showed the growth on his spleen is gone. The chest x-rays are clean. He’ll continue the chemo every 5 – 6 weeks indefinitely but it appears that we’ve beaten the cancer for awhile.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Lawnchairs
Sunday, September 6, 2009
What's My Age Again?
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Brace Yourself
Friday, August 21, 2009
Numbers Don't Count (On Me)
Monday, August 17, 2009
Knee Deep in the Blues
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Always Remember to Respect and Honour Your Mother
Eight years ago, Dad suddenly called us all home. Mom had reached the final days of her long illness. My plane landed in Florida and I went straight to the house. It was filled with family and friends and boiled shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico. I talked to her for awhile the night I arrived and loved her sharp sense of humor, even through the morphine haze. She soon went to sleep that night and I thought we would continue the conversation in the morning. For the next three days, she slept but we never talked again. I just sat on the bed with my dad, sister and brother, playing games, watching TV, and waiting. On the morning of August 16th, I watched her take her last breath, much like she watched me take my first. Jake came home from the breeders a few weeks later and everything hurt just a tiny bit less.
On vacations now, when I step onto a beach for that first moment, I feel the sand against my feet and I swear I if I turned around just then, I might see her behind me on a lounge chair, auburn hair and olive skin, peering over a book and smiling. If our Mother’s Day post wasn’t enough to make you stop and call YOUR mom, do you think you might go do it now?
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Numbers With Wings
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Lunch Break
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Home and Dry
Friday, August 7, 2009
Promised You a Miracle
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Denver Parks #23
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Greatest Hits
Mother’s Day – Jake and his mom, Sentara
Every Day is Halloween – Jake dressed up
Bring on the Dancing Horses – the Mustang at DIA
Coat of Many Colors – Jake at the peak of Nuggets-mania
Who is He (And What Is He to You?) – one of my favorite posts
Blue Monday – Big Blue Bear at the Convention Center
American Boy – Incredibly fun 4th of July weekend in the mountains
Aliens vs. Predator – Dancing Aliens
Red Dirt Girl – Red Rocks
Come See About Me – Jake’s birthday party invitation
Friday, July 31, 2009
Ride a White Horse
Denver Parks #22
Monday, July 27, 2009
Milk Cow Blues
Two things stick in my mind about these bronze sculptures:
First, I remember the day they installed them. The pieces pulled up on a flatbed truck. I walked out of the museum to the surreal sight of the calf sailing through the air at the end of a crane.
Second, it wasn’t even part of the initial plan for the artwork outside the new building (like the Big Sweep or Denver Monoliths). Someone wanted to donate it to us. We found an empty spot on the south end of the site. It was one of those serendipitous events where the single best thing is always the one that you didn’t anticipate. Unscripted. Unplanned. Unexpected. Just like Jake’s current journey.