The Long Road Through

The Slow Work of Getting Through the Hard Things

Some things don’t get easier on their own. You have to push through. You have to work—hard, endlessly, sometimes without any visible result. And even then, progress isn’t linear. It’s slow, almost imperceptible, until suddenly, you realize you’re standing in a different place than where you started.

For years, blood draws were a battle. Lennon is what …