About Us

Evelyn and Mark A. Taylor

After more than 46 years of marriage, my wife, Evelyn Taylor, and I waited in a cramped office, December 18, 2019, to hear her neurologist’s verdict. A few weeks earlier she had submitted to a spinal tap, and the small sample of fluid was enough to tell him what we didn’t want to hear. Evelyn has Alzheimer’s disease. 

We were only two years into my retirement at the time. My wife had served about 35 years as a teacher at Cincinnati Christian University. My career had been a bit longer, more than 40 years in a variety of editorial and administrative roles at Standard Publishing. Both of those institutions have now gone away, just like so many thoughts and dreams we had about how we would spend the last decade or two of our lives. 

Since then, we have received affirmation and support we cannot measure, guidance and protection from God we can only begin to describe. 

And although there’s plenty of grief to acknowledge, we’re also discovering joy. 

I’m working and praying not to let our tragedy turn me away from God or push me into self-pity. But I do have questions and a growing list of observations. When life is turned upside down, a person begins to see it in many new ways. Here I want to share some of what I’m seeing.

Maybe my posts will mean something to any who want to read along and thus, from a distance, walk with us. Maybe it will prod some readers to share their own appraisals of life with loss. 

I hope so. It’s a journey made easier by knowing you’re not walking it alone.