Next week starts a busy season for me of meetings, events, and lots of getting together with folks outside of the home. Because I don’t have to leave my house in order to go to work, the first thing that I thought about as my schedule filled up was what in the world I was going …
Living with a 4-year-old is such a fantastic adventure. From the moment Ayva wakes up, she has a full list of very important tasks that she has to complete. First, she has to have her breakfast. Usually it’s cereal, but occasionally she’ll tell me that she needs a “hot meal” and will ask me to …
Last year around Mother’s Day, things were very different. Life was so stressful for me, and my mother, the one person that I wanted to be able to depend on, just wasn’t able to be there for me. After years of being sober, she has started to struggle with alcohol addiction again, and the mom …