A Community Comes Together for Aiden

Something pretty special is happening in my town these days. It starts with a no-so-great-reason. In January of this year, a second grader from Columbia, Missouri named Aiden, was diagnosed with a really crummy form of cancer. It’s called medulloblastoma. Surgeons were able to remove a tumor from his brain stem but they couldn’t get…

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Losing a Grandma

The world lost one of the best grandmas today. Jordan’s Grandma Jone lost a brief but valiant fight against cancer. One dose of chemo not only destroyed the bad stuff, it destroyed all of her good stuff. Cancer sucks so much. We lucked out in the Grandma department for tons of reasons. The biggest reason…

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Important prayers

Last night I had to tell the kids their Grandma is very sick. We said many prayers. At bed time Jordan asked if she could say a special prayer for her grandma before she went to sleep. She tried to get me to say it for her, but I encouraged her to say it on…

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