It was 3:00am, and I was in a spiritual crisis. Tears were trailing down Nathan’s temples as he lay in a hospital bed at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans; he was fighting pain and trying to get used to his new body cast. It had only been a year since his open heart surgery in [...]
For as long as I can remember, I have been mildly gephyrophobic, i.e., bridge phobic. As a kid, I particularly dreaded going over the Pontchartrain Causeway, the longest bridge in the world until Thailand’s Bang Na Expressway was completed in 2000. The fear subsided over the years, but reared its ugly head again in the [...]
