families

Remember vowing that when you got to be an adult you and your spouse wouldn't be fighting in front of your kids like that?

That summer became the fulcrum of a seesaw: as my children need me less, my mother needed me more. My mother's arthritis taught me to love and let go.

Children are not good at understanding odds. Tell them they are safe (even when you don't believe it).

There is no more powerful place to learn a life lesson than at the bedside of the dying. At the end, very little matters.

Sometimes I wouldn’t want anyone to touch me, but I had to put up with it or I would be seen as rude and cold. My family's culture demands touching.

Sometimes I wouldn’t want anyone to touch me, but I had to put up with it or I would be seen as rude and cold. My family's culture demands touching.

I'm trying to unearth the secrets of my grandfather’s story of when veterans come home. I'm looking at what happened to the men of WW ll.

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