My father passed away in 2007, leaving a big hole in my life. A complicated man who lived a life built on dreams of the future, it wasn’t until he reached the end of his life that he realized many of the mistakes he made – and how they impacted the people he loved. Many…
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Help 8 Year Old Arden Fight Her Brain Tumor
We all fall in love with our children. They become, from the minute they’re born, the thing that is always with us, the little (then big) souls that we nurture, care for, teach, tend to, and most of all adore with all our hearts. Our lives, no matter what they were before, are different after…
Commencement
What’s it like to watch your child graduate from college? What I kept replaying in my head as we began graduation weekend was not the day my daughter was born, or the day of her Bat Mitzvah. Not the day she got her driver’s license, or the night she sang her first show choir solo….
Happy Mother’s Day – The Gift of Four Generations
Sending love to all of my readers, whether you are mothers, daughters or sons. Have a wonderful Mother’s Day! This Mother’s Day I’ll once again be reminded that I’m a lucky woman. Not everything in my life has gone smoothly – just like everyone else in the world – but I’ve had one thing that’s…
Sailing Away on Her Last Spring Break
How can it be? How is it possible that my little girl is nearly done with college, and setting sail on a cruise through the Caribbean for her final spring break…ever? How can she be nearly twenty-two…wasn’t I just twenty-two a few minutes ago? I remember my big spring break trip – for $168, we…
