When we take away the shock and grief in the moment of losing someone close to us, what’s left is a profound opportunity to witness one of life’s miracles. I...

Your impatience becomes your child’s anxiety. Your judgement becomes their self-doubt. Your criticism becomes their inner voice. Your disappointment becomes their shame. The cost of unchecked parenting…

I signed up for the classes out of intrigue, I guess. This was back in the ‘80’s when I knew next to nothing about laws of the universe, metaphysics, or...

Summer Sundays meant picnics at Ellicott Creek Park—an extended family tradition. Mom, her siblings, the uncles who married in, and a gaggle of all their kids would gather like clockwork....

Imagine the internal struggle with the commandment, “Honor thy father and thy mother.” At face value, the instruction seems straightforward. But what happens when the thought of honoring them leaves...

Something in my fancy, leather baby book caught my eye. I couldn’t believe it, so I reread it a few times trying to make sense of it. In my mother’s...

One of the scariest – yet recurring events – was mom waking the boys in the middle of the night. For clarity, she never did that to me. Probably because...

We’re finally out of the projects and in our forever home. The story of getting the house in the first place is just wild. As Mom tells it, I got...

“Your own grandmother wanted me to put you kids in an orphanage”. This wasn’t even said in a fit of rage. It was offered in a tone like announcing the...