Offering Kindness
Remembering Jim
Today, we mark two years since our beloved Jim passed away. Our Plews-Ogan family, including Rowan and baby Phoebe, Erin and Hal, and Will and Monika, are gathering for the weekend as we will every year. This year, we’re in Minneapolis. The time together has given us...
January | Hopefulness: “Read The Books”
In the first year of Jim living with ALS, Peggy suggested that we record his voice reading children’s books aloud while he still had his voice. Like many families living early on with ALS, we delayed voice-banking. Voice-banking is one of many efforts in ALS land that...
Small Acts Echo
Some days were “cold-start” days. When the sun rose or before, my mom would lift my dad’s head off the pillow, fold each leg upward with a hand under each knee, and pivot his torso towards the edge of the bed. I would—on visits back to Charlottesville from New York...
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Remembering Jim
Today, we mark two years since our beloved Jim passed away. Our Plews-Ogan family, including Rowan and baby Phoebe, Erin and Hal, and Will and Monika, are gathering for the weekend as we will every year. This year, we’re in Minneapolis. The time together has given us...