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Wrecked Suicide is a ruinous act. It not only puts an end to one person’s life, it also affects the lives of others in conscious and subconscious ways for years to come. At the time my father chose to end his life by suicide, I was too young to see the events leading up to…

Stuck Naturally, we all grow older, but we don’t all naturally grow up. We don’t stop ourselves from aging, but we can stop ourselves from developing.  When trauma happens in our lives, our emotional growth can stagnate. We get stuck. We keep thinking in the same way about what we think about, yet we hope…

Learning to Read I had the privilege of teaching each of my three sons how to read. It was a thrilling journey for me to lead each of them in this exciting adventure of learning to read.  Before they understood anything at all about the 26 letters of the alphabet or the concept of consonants…

First Things First Thirty-three years ago this month, we moved into the house that we still live in today. At the time, our oldest son was eight, our youngest was four and I was six months pregnant.  It was a snowy, rainy, and cold January day and not a jolly holiday for me. But our…