2025-03-31 2025-03-31
It All Comes Crashing Down
Remember last week, when all was fair? I was awash in joy, taking pleasure in puncturing my own penchant for creativity through misery. And then, the other shoe dropped. Two days after that blog entry was posted, my father-in-law collapsed and was rushed to the hospital for an emergency double bypass. My husband and his siblings dropped everything and flew to Florida to be by his side. And I was left wondering, in the words of the great wit Urkel, “Did I do that?” By being so flippant about happiness, did I bring down doom upon my nearest and dearest? Would the God I worship really bring down the hammer on my carefree naiveté like a celestial game of Whack-A-Mole? Read next feature >
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