epilepsy dad

Author: Dave

  • The Walk Back

    The Walk Back

    I just dropped my son off at the airport.

    Six weeks.

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  • The Shape of Things

    The Shape of Things

    The longest that I’ve ever been apart from my son is about a week.

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  • Our Thing

    Our Thing

    There is a picture from around his second birthday. He is standing in the driveway holding a basketball that is almost as big as he is, looking up at the hoop with complete seriousness.

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  • Whatever Comes After

    Whatever Comes After

    I sat at a table in the gym at my son’s school. At the other tables, there were a dog groomer, a police detective, someone from the state park maintenance crew, an archaeologist, and other community members. We were there for career day.

    My topic was AI.

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  • What Could Have Been

    What Could Have Been

    I was listening to a podcast recently about a woman in her seventies, semi-retired, describing a life built around boards and civic connections and a career that had opened into something expansive in its later years. She sounded settled in a way that felt earned, like she had arrived somewhere she had been moving toward for a long time.

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