Greetings, blog readers!
I’m sure many of you from around the globe and US have wondered who in the heck I am. I don’t know anyone overseas I don’t think, so hello there! Anywho, tomorrow is my 35th birthday, so I thought I would do as short as possible of a written summary of my life. It’s been a FULL almost 35 years, so the shortness isn’t guaranteed. 👀😬
I was born in Wisconsin while my Daddy was in seminary to later be ordained an Episcopal priest. Early on I was diagnosed with hydrocephalus. My fourth and final shunt ended up being put in at Wolfsons Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville Florida.
*Insert idyllic few years on the Georgia coast and Northern Indiana here.*
Eventually, my parents wanted to return to their native state of Georgia to be near their two sets of parents so that’s where I grew up. Halfway through my senior year of high school my father passed away of a massive heart attack. I had never known such a feeling of wanting to start over until recently, and I went to my first two years of college in my childhood stomping grounds of Northern Indiana at Holy Cross. It was there as a cradle Episcopalian that I not only shotgunned my first beer (🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️) but fell head over heels in love with The Catholic Church. I graduated in 05, and converted 5 years later. ❤️
Yeah, this isn’t going to be short, and my hand still really hurts from the other day. Perhaps I’ll finish this sometime on the iPad once I fix it.
Pray for me tomorrow, frands. Because tomorrow I celebrate a birthday in the same town I was given a life in in July of 86 when a brilliant neurosurgeon put in an adult sized Denver shunt into this big head of mine, and sent me off to Holy Cross years later when he did my college physical. It is a shunt that is no longer needed. God has interesting plans for each and every one of us. 🤗Here’s to all of us living our lives more vibrantly in the second half than we did in the first.
LCB