By Mary Jedlicka Humston © 2012
You
don’t know her all that well. Sure, you sit near each other on the bleachers
when your daughters play junior varsity basketball, but you wouldn’t describe
her as a close friend. You hear she’s dealing with ovarian cancer and is homebound,
recuperating from surgery and treatment.
There’s
the family a couple streets over. You know them casually, see them out for
walks and occasionally talk about the weather and their dogs. You read in the
newspaper that their teenaged son, the one with the red hair and big smile, was
recently killed in a car accident.
Situations
like these make you feel helpless and
