Why a blog?

Because we've been trying to keep in touch with too many people by less efficient means, like phone and text messages.

Because a lot of you are asking the same questions, and sometimes we come up with the answers after we've already talked or texted with you once.

Because maybe someday, Anna and Evelyn will be 14 year old girls who decide to ego-surf the Internet archives, and I want them to come across the story of how their mother is an amazingly strong woman.