The Chapter IN WHICH Sara Goes Away and Her Father Cries
September 2, 2024, by Kristin Neva My daughter, Sara, is beginning her freshman year at a university a couple hours from us, and last Saturday was her day to move…
September 2, 2024, by Kristin Neva My daughter, Sara, is beginning her freshman year at a university a couple hours from us, and last Saturday was her day to move…
June 10, 2024, by Kristin Neva Last January, my sister-in-law asked what our plans were for my daughter Sara’s high school graduation. She wondered if she, my mother-in-law, and my…
August 28, 2023, by Kristin Neva One evening last week after I’d finished cooking dinner, I grew concerned. My almost 14-year-old son had gone out to ride his dirt bike…
June 12, 2023, by Kristin Neva As I fed my husband, Todd, his morning breakfast, a charm of yellow finches caught our attention, flitting to and from a mountain ash…
January 5, 2023, by Kristin Neva This past weekend, my husband, Todd, coached our son, Isaac, in making and installing a shelf in our daughter’s bedroom. It was a corner…
July 20, 2022, by Kristin Neva One evening, I took my daily walk in the Nara Nature Park in Houghton, Michigan. As I made my way around a network of…
June 12, 2022, by Todd Neva Kristin asked me several times to write something for the 12-year anniversary of my ALS diagnosis. The anniversary came and went on June 10.…
November 16, 2021 by Kristin Neva “Your YouTube channel must be taking off,” my 15-year-old daughter said. “Your edema video was recommended to me again. I was just scrolling through…
August 30, 2021 by Kristin Neva My husband, Todd, and I marked 18 years of marriage on Tuesday. The memory of our seventh anniversary is seared into my mind. He…
August 17, 2021 by Kristin Neva When my husband, Todd, was diagnosed with ALS, I grieved the loss of our dreams and our future together, but I had no idea…