No Longer Maintaining

I'm writing to you as a parent of a child who lives with mental illness. At age 7, my daughter was a cheerful,inquisitive and playful child. She ran around outside and was loud and boistorous. I encourage her joie de vivre. Like many parents of active children, I indulged her spontanity and creativity. I enrolled …

Saying I love you is a reminder that nothing is permanent

Did you love someone so deeply that you never saw an end to this line? Were you confident in your trust that forever meant for keeps? Childhood sayings and the knowledge that waking up means the dream ends and we all end up facing the day, the quiet of a morning dawn, the breathing of …

Valentine

To those out there exposing their hearts on this day, I give you some considerations to take, Valentine is but one day out of the year, Consider the courage to expose your heart to someone near and dear, 364 days out of the year, This brutal expression of love whether forlorn or not, is but …

The Art of Patience

The day before Christmas eve, I had a major bike accident.  My bike bag straps got wrapped up in my front wheel and it threw me over the handlebars and in a split second, everything changed. I remember that day vividly, the burning sensation to the left side of my face as I hit the …

Parenting is never over and then there are dreams

There is a part of you that always remains in parent mode. After spending 20 something years putting aside your own personal agenda and needs, you are propelled into taking care of another person mode. Their needs and wants comes first. In some way, their needs and wants makes you want to better yourself. Parenting …