When my friend used that joke the other day I didn't actually laugh, but the "Mayo or Miracle" whip quip has actually caught on...and I'm using it a ton.
I'm here - in Rochester. At Mayo Clinic. The highlight of my day happened about 25 minutes ago when I was walking through the underground subway (a thing that has me incredibly fascinated for about two new reasons every time I'm in it) and noticed a sign atop a baby grand piano in the lobby of a building. I'd seen the piano earlier today but ignored it as I presumed the sign read something like "Please Don't Touch." Much to my delight, a closer look (by my dad actually) revealed that the piano is put there for use by patients and visitors of the Mayo Clinic.
In the the nearly empty marble-floored lobby I exclaimed, "Well, that's cool, I'm gonna do it." There were few people around so it wasn't intimidating in the least. So I sat and played. Just for a few minutes. But it was grand. Maybe that was my miracle today.
In other news: Mayo is efficient and runs very smoothly, but I'll be coming back in December - twice. The consultations I am scheduled for couldn't all be done this week. It looks like we'll be wrapping this visit up on Friday and headed back in a few weeks.
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
Please come along our journey with us. As the saying goes, "The more, the merrier!"
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