by Jacob Swenson-Lengyel | February 8, 2022 | Remembering Jules
If you told me that my most precious memories would be those where I held my dead child, I wouldn’t have believed you. I couldn’t have believed you. For, if you told me that my firstborn son would die — like the cursed children of the Pharaoh’s Egypt...
by Jacob Swenson-Lengyel | January 24, 2022 | Remembering Jules
Time is hurtling us inexorably forward. Each second – minute – hour – day – week – month is taking us further and further from the time when we could at least hold Jules, feel his skin on our skin, savor the touch of his downy soft...
by Jacob Swenson-Lengyel | January 10, 2022 | Remembering Jules
For the last three weeks, much of the attention in our household has been focused on bodily matters, as Willa continues to mend physically and has been slowly recovering her eyesight. Her vision is almost back to normal, but is still blurry in her left eye. The...