Hope springs eternal –Alexander Pope The question of hope. Who carries the hope in the family? My old friend…
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It takes months for me to find a good therapist. When I finally do she tells me my family is…
“Where are we going?” Her every morning question. “Miss Patty’s house today.” “But I don’t want to…
My mother had two sisters she never told me about. When she mentioned her large family, she told me she…
This is the story my sister-in-law’s brother Andrew told over dinner: One night he, some friends and a fellow female…
I’m having the biggest ego trip in my life. Lucas, at one-and-a-half years old, sees me everywhere. He notices a…
– I was at the shoe store the other day and a father said the most refreshing thing to his…
It’s quiet. Really quiet. My son is at my ex-husband’s place for the week. The constant outer noise and inner…
Twenty years ago, there was only one reason I coveted turning forty. ONE. As a hungry student, on the scent…
As I began to inch closer to forty, I was stunned to realize that for all my efforts of the…