Dear Friends,

I figured I would write a quick midyear update for you. Unfortunately, I mean the title of this missive literally. My wife had a stroke in early May. It was kind of a surprise because you don’t see many strokes in people in their mid 40s and she’s always been the healthy one. Apparently, she has had very high blood pressure for a long time, but it never gave her symptoms and since she doesn’t need to go to the doctor very often, she was unaware of it until the stroke. If the...