We have had a rather depressing weekend. Yesterday it was the weather; this morning we woke up to sun but got news that Ed’s sister’s teenage daughter Kelly had been in a car accident overnight and was not expected to live. We heard tonight that doctors are preparing to take Kelly off of life support, and that her organs will be donated. Everybody in the family is devastated.

My favorite memory of Kelly (other than her humorous thank you notes) is on our visit to St. Augustine about seven years ago. Kelly found out that there was a ghost tour there, and she wanted to go on it, but the adults dismissed the idea as a touristy ripoff. For the next six hours, Kelly managed to work in the request for the ghost tour into every sentence she uttered. It was so comical that she was promptly nicknamed “Relentless”, and it stuck.

Right now I am wishing that we went on that ghost tour.

Update: We just got confirmation that Kelly died at about 8:30PM Eastern time.