There’s not much that is harder to do than watch someone you love hurt. The connection to our children seems to me to be a mysterious and hard-to-explain phenomenon. I swear, I feel all the things for them no matter how old they get — good and bad. I remember days of absolute dread as […]

When my granddaughters were 4 (Josie) and 2 (Avie), their mom and I resorted to an age-old contest to get the food off the plates and into the bellies. Whoever eats their food first would win, and soon dessert would be forthcoming. Little one shoveled it in while her older sister procrastinated. I’m not sure […]

When the world first started tipping a bit, I wanted to avoid giving the subject that has overtaken our normalcy any of my words. As it has continued to gain momentum I began to feel compelled to express my feelings about it — perhaps as a way to get it all out, but also because […]