by Renee Bertalan | Feb 5, 2015 | Life Issues
In an interview, I heard cultural architect, futurist, and lecturer Erwin McManus talk about one of the ongoing behaviors that kids have is to dress up like their favorite superhero. Usually, they dress like the hero whose strength and power they want to imitate. Yet...
by Julie Fisk | Jan 22, 2015 | Life Issues
Peering into the mailbox, my eyes sought out the object that was wedged just a little too tightly to slide out without a serious tug. A children’s book. As I wriggled it free, my eyes teared up. It was the last book my newly-minted five-year-old would receive...
by Lindsay May | Jan 22, 2015 | Life Issues
Life was grand – every night was date night. Movies, peaceful dinners out, last-minute trips, and the thing I’ve loved all along – freedom – was abundant and thoroughly enjoyed. I had a wonderful husband, home in the suburbs, established career, and newly acquired...
by Kristin Demery | Dec 25, 2014 | Life Issues
You would think that after seven years of marriage and the two children that have followed, the luster would wear a bit thin on love. And if I’m honest, there are days when it does. Days when we’ve stepped on one too many tiaras in the living room or Noelle is waving...
by Julie Fisk | Dec 8, 2014 | Life Issues
Drowning. It isn’t like the movies – no flailing arms, no loud screaming, no thrashing about. Instead, it is insidiously quiet. Drowning is a silent struggle, without wild movements to draw attention, and ends with the victim simply, finally slipping under...
by Deirdre Thompson | Dec 4, 2014 | Life Issues
It’s almost Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year! So how is it that on one Christmas Day I ended up crying on the floor of an I-94 rest stop bathroom? I was the Goldilocks of Christmas until I learned to say “no.” This Christmas is Much Too Hard It seems...
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