I met Jo in the summer of 2001 at the Rejean Café in Leuven. Although we were drunk so it could have also easily been 2002. Today would have been Jo’s 56th birthday. He died February 24, 2004. To the smartest, most sympathetic yet simultaneously frustrating person I’ve ever had the privilege to call my friend,

My daughter and I have recently been infected with Lyme disease compliments of some neighbourhood ticks.  We were (hopefully) fortunate to detect the infections before they became too severe. In any case …

This morning we had the pleasure of taking our 20 month old daughter to the emergency to have what seemed like a tick bite examined by a doctor. We’re not fans of the Slovene medical community. In fact, we sort of hate it. So much so that we shed tears before we hit the road. Yes, it’s bad. But, we learned a valuable lesson …