Luke and Sam took turns helping to decorate the top of the tree or to string lights outside. By the end of November, all we needed were some gingerbread cookies, Santa, and December. Ginger was walking about, sometimes with a cane instead of the walker, and we were thankful for that early Christm...
A Hispanic man rocked in the corner with a blood-soaked towel wrapped around his hand. A skeletal elderly lady sat in another corner retching into a pan. Even worse, a young mother paced through the emergency room bouncing a curly-headed toddler. His screams curdled my blood. But Mrs. McElroy sat...