Dr. Frankie Condon is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Together, she and her husband, Mike, are raising their three children, acting as the primary caregivers to her mom, who has multiple sclerosis, and also trying to keep up with two dogs, a cat, two chinchillas and a bearded dragon lizard. They live active, busy and occasionally stressful lives, but also lives filled with joy, laughter and powerful sense of having been blessed with the opportunity to learn and grow in the care of one another.