Signs of spring encourage me amid the difficulties of life with ALS

Signs of spring encourage me amid the difficulties of life with ALS

Signs of spring appear every day outside my kitchen window here in northern Michigan, even as my own life feels heavy with my care for my husband, Todd, who has ALS. After a long winter, our 2 feet of snow, which was in the field behind our house a few short weeks ago, is melting quickly. The field’s south side, along a tree line, still has some white, but water has pooled in the middle of the field. It’s held there by the ice on our pond before…