You Would Have Been Such a Good Big Brother
An open letter to my son . . . Dear Ben, I’m so sorry we are unable to give you…
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An open letter to my son . . . Dear Ben, I’m so sorry we are unable to give you…
Continue ReadingI wonder how many times God looks down upon me and sees me picking up things I am not meant…
Continue ReadingBaby, if there ever was anything that could renew my faith, it’s you. From the curve of your small eyebrow…
Continue ReadingEvery evening before I turn in to go to bed, I always take a few minutes to do a quiet…
Continue Reading“Good game. Fun day,” I repeated to myself as I walked in the door. We had just returned from my…
Continue ReadingWhen all my kids were little and there were constantly five little mouths talking to me and 10 little hands…
Continue ReadingThe tree lights flashed in our darkened living room that Christmas Eve night, creating transient shadows on the walls. The…
Continue ReadingThis Christmas will not be perfect. Despite the lofty goals I set for myself to have everything in order and…
Continue Reading'Twas the night before 2020 Christmas and all through the halls, Frustration, wrapping paper, Scotch tape rolled in balls. The…
Continue ReadingA few years ago, some friends and I took a train from London to Edinburgh. It was spectacular. It most…
Continue ReadingWe have long been able to count on Saturday Night Live to bring us Christmas cheer with hilariously "real life"…
Continue ReadingI can still hear the fresh crackle involved in freeing it from its plastic clamshell—a new ornament, a gift from…
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