TeamReedBlog.2020

Nearly 30 million Americans have been tracked as COVID-19 positive. More than 500K Americans have died from the virus. So it shouldn't surprise anyone that COVID came to Castle Row. We were careful, but we still got it. If I was a betting person, I'd bet it was round two for us. Jeff came down with a bad cold in February 2020, and it was starting to hit me when Alison's Spring Break was about to start. We were in the heading to Lafayette, and I must have looked even worse than I felt because he pulled a classic Dad Move, turned the car around and banished me to the basement where I stayed for a couple of weeks. The isolation worked. Ali didn't get sick, and I emerged from my round of that bad cold after a couple grumpy weeks. This year, the symptoms and recovery time for me were just about identical. Maybe longer and harsher. The Captain, who again fell ill before me, had more of the headaches, digestive issues and fever symptoms.  We were both fatigued and slept a lot,...

This is the first year I remember where both the Captain and I have been too sick to properly celebrate our wedding anniversary/Valentine's Day. It's year 23 for those of you keeping track, and no, we don't think it's COVID. Just bad colds kind of like the ones that struck in early 2020. Bad enough that Jeff slept most of the week away downstairs in quarantine. He got sick first and insisted I wear a mask every time I checked on him. I forgot on occasion but didn't think there was a way I was going to escape it either. It didn't really hit me until Thursday and I've been in pajamas ever since. I was about ready to feel sorry for myself when I remembered that so many people in my life are facing much more difficulties. I'm pretty sure we will be back in the swing of things soon. (And, no, we don't need anything, but thanks for the thought.)  Instead, please say a prayer or send a good vibe to my friend Anna and her boyfriend Ryan, who is battling leuk...

  The Captain tells a story about his first day in law school that I assume most lawyers tell: He's in his first class and the professor tells the assembly to take a look to their left and then their right. Jeff was still in a little bit of culture shock as this was his first time in Indiana, and he knew no one. His parents had driven him from Maine and were still reeling from their first corn dog and the flat vista.  But back to the class. "Only one of the three of you will make it to graduation," the prof intones to the would-be attorneys.  Jeff was sitting between two Hoosiers, John Christ and Eric Yocum, who he had yet to really meet. Jeff looked at one and then the other.  "I'll be OK," he though. The three would become blood brothers; attorneys minted in the same year and successful in their separate practices. I don't know what John or Eric thought about their perusal of the people around them, and I would love to share photos of them at the time ...