by Jacob Swenson-Lengyel | November 17, 2022 | Remembering Jules
Today is what Willa and I call “Jules’ Day,” the day of the month when Jules was born and when he died. He would have been eleven months old today and I miss him dearly. Willa was the first to say, “I miss Jules,”after we returned home from the hospital in December....
by Jacob Swenson-Lengyel | September 2, 2022 | Remembering Jules
On Father’s Day, I packed up Jules’ nursery for our move to North Carolina. It was an ironic act, or perhaps a symbolic one: I am now the kind of father who is tending to an empty crib. We have been returning to the world slowly over the last few months. Returning...
by Jacob Swenson-Lengyel | June 6, 2022 | Remembering Jules
Two things happened on December 17th: Jules died and Willa lived. Willa’s survival was no sure thing. When we drove her from the birth center to the hospital, the doctors rushed her to surgery, just like they do on television, shouting “go, go, go.”...