“I wish I was a kid again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.”
How true this saying goes.  As kids, the most hurting moment of our lives may be that of having an accident while playing. Scratches and bruises made us cry and ran to our mothers to be soothed and made [...]

“Mommy, when are you gonna smile?”
Like a lightning bolt, that single, naive question coming from my eight-year-old son penetrated my mourning heart and abruptly jolted me to consciousness.  My son wisely, albeit unknowingly, saved me from further plunging into my own self — from closing out the world outside  and tucking myself deep into my [...]