When my dear friend Jen became engaged to “The One” (Adam), my friends and I were prepared for a great shin-dig! Oops, I mean a very beautiful, elegant wedding. No one would have expected anything less from Jen. After all she was our go-to party-planning maven. As we expected, she took care of every wedding…… Continue Reading
Catch the Digmanns in the news
Category Archives: Daily Life
Be a champion everyday
I need you to do something for me: Stop reading this for three seconds and think about what you consider the best victory in sports history. …………………. …………………. …………………. OK. Welcome back. What’d you come up with? Perhaps it’s the Miracle on Ice when the amateur American hockey team upset the highly favored Russian team…… Continue Reading
Moving forward
June is here, and while Jennifer is busy wrapping up her graduate class for Central Michigan University’s first eight-week summer session, I am working to get back into running form for the summer season. I recently had my worst-ever time in a 5K race at the Alma Highland Festival of Races over the Memorial Day…… Continue Reading
My MS lesson
On May 12, Dan and I will join our friends and family in Frankenmuth, Mich., for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s largest fundraiser, Walk MS. The walk is always a great event; good people, good times, an exciting atmosphere, weather that is often awful but despite that, the day is always wonderful. This is the…… Continue Reading
Despite MS, I Am a Caregiver
Memories of an old Nike advertisement when Charles Barkley proclaimed that he was not a role model got me thinking of something I am not. I am not a caregiver. I mean, I can’t be. After all, I am the one in the wheelchair. The one who no longer stands without help. The one who…… Continue Reading
Trapped
Exactly one week ago today, I was enjoying the best concert I have ever been to. Funny—it was a show by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Yes, the 80s rock singer of Born in the U.S.A. The guy that led me to tell my mom nearly 10 years ago, after meeting my now-husband…… Continue Reading
Traveling, with MS
Jennifer and I have been together for nearly a decade, but she has yet to set foot into my parents’ home. We’ve gone back to my hometown of Monticello, Iowa, to spend Easter with my family each year, but the three steep steps leading into their home make it impossible for Jennifer to get inside…… Continue Reading
"Come and see"
This Lenten season our church – Immanuel Lutheran Church – developed a devotional booklet where different members of the congregation wrote their individual reflections on John 1:43-51. Here is the devotional we wrote that appears for today, March 12. How convenient that this appears during National MS Awareness Week, March 12-18. We share Nathaniel’s uncertainty…… Continue Reading
To spend three coins
All I remember is standing on the basketball court one evening at the elementary school I attended across the street from my home. I was taking a break from shooting baskets, and I caught myself staring at our family’s one-story light green house. It was the last place I wanted to go. I don’t recall…… Continue Reading
For You: Another open letter to Bruce Springsteen
We wrote an open letter to Bruce Springsteen before we saw him in concert a couple years ago. Assuming he didn’t get the letter (he didn’t play our request), we thought we’d try again for the concert coming up in a couple months… Dear Bruce Springsteen, As you scan the sea of signs surrounding the…… Continue Reading