I hear it’s a holiday of sorts. The last hurrah. The last dance of summer. Hard to understand when you never saw summer and can’t leave...

Advancement is at the suffering of others. There is just no way around it. That fact has stared me in the face everyday. It’s a hard...

I wonder when I will no longer need to read this blog. When I will no longer need to be reminded. When things are internal and not...

Hunkering. I’m hunkering myself over here. I am hunkering in my room. I hear the boys playing. This is the most beautiful noise in the...

I’m not alone. I’m not the only one who knows this secret. The power of community. PLEASE check this out! It will give you a smile. Look...

Today is day 4 of round 4. The end of the administration of chemo, but the beginning of getting “sick.” And chemo has a cumulative...

What are you listening to is a new popular question. I was never asked this question until last year and now it’s pretty constant. Often...

I read the NYTimes Evening briefing last night. Its been a good month since I’ve read the news, And then I saw the news. And DAMN. Geez. ...

I took a course on Semester At Sea that really intrigued me. It was a newer field in psychology (scoffed by many, probably still is),...

I’m shaking. Literally shaking. What are the odds? Seriously what are the odds? I can’t even begin to figure out how to calculate them....

Steve I have a new nightly routine. We still hang, but it ends differently. This I could never have predicted. Steve stays upstairs to...

Candy. I announced that our family no longer eats candy. I didn’t say we won’t eat ice cream nor white pasta, just candy. This did not go...

Play has definitely gotten more complicated. Our favorite game to play is “snuggle puppy.” This imaginative play game was invented by...