This morning my Facebook newsfeed was filled with updates from people going through such difficult, heartbreaking situations.  I spent thirty minutes, writing, rewriting, adjusting and writing again.   It was very difficult to think of the appropriate thing to say to my friend who is fighting brain cancer or my friend […]

  I think one of the most dangerous consequences of any fierce fight, is the way it shrinks our vision to primarily the soil of our own battlefield.  Sometimes I feel that if I’m not careful, I’ll get stuck inside an ALS bucket, where our issues are the issues.  It’s like living inside your […]

  Yesterday I explained in this post how I found myself face down in the Land of Burnout and how that admission led to the chance to get way from home for a night and think and breathe and, most importantly, sleep.   I woke up on Saturday morning nearly […]

  Somewhere in the hazy fog of the past crazy week, I came to a realization and it is this:  I have become exactly what I planned never to become.  Well, let me rephrase that:  I have become what I hoped I would never become.  Had I actually created a […]

  I recently talked to a woman who has been estranged from her father for many years.  Her totally healthy father.   She wasn’t abused or yelled at. She just wasn’t much seen at all.  The story of her dad’s parenting could almost be told in one sentence, “He did […]