Too Early for the Birds and the Bees?
One day, I couldn’t find my Glamour magazine. My daughter E loves to flip through my magazines, especially ones with fashion and beauty articles and perfume samples, but she knows not to take them...
View ArticleSurrogate Families
When I was almost nine years old, my father passed away from pancreatic cancer. Before that my mother developed breast cancer and suffered through treatments for it. Reflecting upon that time, I’m...
View ArticleHe’s Only Sleeping: Bringing Children to Funerals
As I’ve mentioned before, my personal exposure to death came at a relatively young age when my dad passed away after a brief but intense illness. Subconsciously, it has colored several parts of my...
View ArticleSpare Me the Drama
These days it seems I live in a hot house of never-ending upheaval. Maintaining my composure, not to mention enough focus to get any work done, is a daily struggle. Yes, I set my daughter up for an...
View ArticleLet the Games Begin!
Summer always seemed so limitless and free with endless days of wonderful possibilities until boredom set in around August. One way my sister L and I combated this boredom, with or without friends and...
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