Friday Up North

I am sitting in a coffee shop this morning in a town hours away from my family. I have my headphones in, and a really, really good cup of coffee next to me. I was able, fortunately, to be free to travel on the spur of the moment and visit my grandmother who broke her hip last month. My head is swimming from what I have heard in the last 20 hours.

She turned 89 last week--what a way to spend a birthday, huh? She can't walk right now and is in some pretty bad pain. Her mind is quite