Dallas Zoo newborn giraffe named for cancer victim (and baby Bear) James
…, everything went smoothly and all was well. Then in June, the almost-eight-month-old James started having some health problems. Within a month, an aggressive brain tumor had taken his life. That short statement, of course, doesn’t begin to sum up all that the Sikes went through over those few weeks, or the pain they have dealt with since then. The couple has kept an extraordinarily open blog running through all of this, sharing their thoughts and…