Thanks Tom. You play with the cards you're dealt and through some bad hands I've learned to play the game differently.
This year's theme at my son's school is "Live Courageously, Love Greatly". I've adopted that as my own personal motto and have decided to play my cards that way.
A few years ago this lost to MSU would have bothered me a lot. I'm disappointed for sure but I'm drinking some wine, listening to my son and his buddies play guitar and I am texting back and forth with my gorgeous, hot girlfriend, planning our next encounter.
So yes, I'm very sad that yet another person close to me will soon depart this world. But she also is playing the cards she was dealt courageously. She knows what is coming and I am awed by her strength and that of her husband.