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It had been an uneventful December morning… until the school bus hit my car. So I’m sitting at the stop sign, waiting my turn to exit our housing development. Jack was buckled into the...

The Aftermath. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an...

When events leave you no other choice. When your world collapses, nothing seems to matter. Basic hygiene becomes an accomplishment, instead of the prelude to accomplishments. You wonder how early is too early to...

My thoughts on prayers. “You and everyone else has given me their prayers. These prayers don’t seem to be working at all!” My older, very outspoken neighbor said this to me yesterday when I...

Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how.’ Viktor Frankl “Why does everything I do as a parent feel so impossibly hard?” I sobbed as I posed this question...

Confronting our darkness brings fear down to size. “If we forbid ourselves to talk negatively about something, we block the awareness of grievances that need an airing as a prelude to dealing with them.”...

Events can take on a life of their own…though not always on our timetable Do you ever feel those days where you can’t get outside of your head? The days you are dragging, going...

A comfort zone is a beautiful place but nothing ever grows there. Unknown A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life. Coco Chanel You have such pretty hair. Don’t ever...

Like everything else–it’s complicated. Life isn’t fair, yet my limited teenage experiences told me otherwise. Sheltered by my upper middle class upbringing, I would engage in some magical thinking, borne from the luck of...

What story will you tell? One day a while back, I was in my car getting my NPR “Fresh Air” fix. Terry Gross had been interviewing someone whose name I can’t even recall, but...