Wife Wednesday Episode 11 – Medical Bankruptcy & Cost of Caretaking
What about people like us — people who are medically bankrupt?” One sentence from my wife changed how I understood a term I thought I already knew.
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Wife Wednesday Episode 10
Getting in the door, staying alive once you’re through it, and the paperwork that follows you home. Three fights in one weekend, and only one of them ends in a letter instead of a discharge form.
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Wife Wednesday Episode 9
Wife Wednesday · Episode 9 Waiting There’s a traffic light near our house that’s red 88% of the time. I’ve counted. It doesn’t matter what hour, what day, which of the three lights on the mile-and-a-half drive to the grocery store — something turns red on cue. Fifteen, twenty minutes, for a trip that should…
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Wife Wednesday Episode 7
Wife Wednesday — Adult Healthcare; In Action. Wife Wednesday · Episode 7 Adult Healthcare; In Action. Week two with a better system. A hard Monday, met with Grace — and the quiet proof that it was never better people. It’s a better system. Wednesday, July 8, 2026 · Paul Springfield Alright. We’ve had a full…
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Wife Wednesday Episode 6
Wife Wednesday — What a Week (in the BEST Way) Wife Wednesday · Episode 6 What a Week (in the BEST Way) She had a good week. For her. The needle running the other way — real lift, real cost, and a system that finally planned ahead. Hope, hedged. Wednesday, July 1, 2026 · Paul…
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meet-little-sally
Meet Little Sally | Paul Springfield Paul Springfield ← Blog The Life Fixer-Uppers & Weird Cars Cars · The Homestead · The Life Paul Springfield · Lovejoy, Georgia Meet Little Sally. 2003 Lincoln LS. Three years in the drive. Four wooded acres, every season, waiting. This week she started coming back. [ Instagram embed —…
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Problems That Don’t Have to Be
Problems That
Don’t Have to Be.
34,186 people watched a poorly made video filmed at 4am after an exhausting day, month, and two years. This is the full story — written Wednesday, labs today, rest of the week unknown. -
24K and still being watched?!
“She started asking ‘how many now?’ — during times she was otherwise exhausted, almost lethargic. That number gave her something to hold onto.”
That moment is why I’m writing this. Not to chase views. Because if 24,000 people are paying attention, I owe it to Melody — and to this community — to use that attention for something real. -
Problems That Don’t Have to Be Problems: A Midnight at Piedmont Henry
It’s midnight. I’m rolling an oxygen tank on a dolly, balanced on a wheelchair, down a hospital hallway. Third room since 1:00pm. My wife is in the chair. I haven’t slept in 36 hours. I have deliverables due tomorrow that I will miss — one of them for the third time.
