My Friend Pete

Year 1 We had driven down to my Mom’s house one day in 2019. She took me to her dimly lit, breezy garage and guided me to a box along the far wall. “Look inside!”, she said. The box was full of tiny kittens. Why the neighbor’s cat had chosen...

T1D / Reflecting on Sleepy Mistakes

“Are you okay?” my wife asked around midnight. There was a loud ringing in my ears and I was drenched. I glanced at my watch, which read 39 above a solid line of red dots for the past hour. ‘No,’ I replied as I struggled to sit up and move...