It didn’t take me very long to get that loft condo into brilliant shape.  I was a determined little gal, and somehow, I developed this super-human ability to lift boxes and pieces of furniture that came close to outweighing me. But in a matter of two days of non-stop work, I turned that loft into […]

A week or two after we moved into our loft, I hired a handyman to help me lift a few of the things that I couldn’t lift on my own and to hang pictures and shelves in our new place. His name was “Skip,” and he was a young kid who had dreams of moving […]

After about a month, Lou was still bleeding, but he had started to regain a bit of strength.  He was taking liquid iron supplements, and we found a fitness park a few blocks away from our condo. Every morning, we’d walk to the fitness park and do a few laps. There were little stations for […]