Rest in Power, Roberta Flack. ❤️ My father is the reason that I love Roberta. She was an enduring part of the soundtrack of my childhood an...

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it”.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

 “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

I am grateful for our family's health and for amazing sunsets and sunrises in our new home. I'm thrilled that Seba and Lulu are both...

I loved Kenneth Branagh's "Belfast." The story, the acting, the cinematography were all on point. Branagh's love letter ...

“Losing a parent is something like driving through a plateglass window. You didn’t know it was there until it shattered, and then for years ...

"We live our lives forward and understand them backward.” Kierkegaard

“What is the body? Endurance. What is love? Gratitude. What is hidden in our chests? Laughter. What else? Compassion.” -Rumi

"There's something about not playing small in a world that always makes you feel that way that is an act of bravery and beauty like...

"One of the greatest gifts that the Museum has given to me is boredom. Because if you're really bored, then you find things to lear...

Growing up is about surviving long enough so that you can find the person you were always meant to be. - Matt, in "Worn Stories," ...

For better, for worse but never for granted.

"So this is where the dead go in our imaginations: They continue to live with us in the moments when we are sad and terrified. They ch...

“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners o...

A year into this pandemic, I feel like we are about to round a corner.  Vaccines are giving me hope for better days for all of us. Thank you...

  The poem below, Epitaph, was written by Merrit Malloy and as one of those poems, has become a stap le of funeral and memorial services…for...

 " Max’s autism diagnosis three years ago gave me an unspeakable sense of relief. When a friend asked me later that day how I was feeli...

Like the rest of the world, we're on lockdown, living the new 'normal' while quarantined.  We're grateful to be healthy and ...

On National Coming Out Day, I renew  my pledge to teach my son and daughter   what I didn’t learn at home: That the greatest family v...

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Addair

This. A thousand times, this. This post nails what it's like to be an adult who was raised by a mentally unstable parent: A habit of...

How to talk to your daughter about her body, step one: Don't talk to your daughter about her body, except to teach her how it works.  ...

There's a lot of news going on about the "black hole girl" right now, and how she's being given too much credit for her r...

My favorite quote is "If I can't be a good example, let me be a horrible warning."  It turns out that once again, I get to be ...