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When I was thirteen and my father took his own life, it left me not only bereaved, but also thoroughly confused. If the one I’d loved and trusted the most in my life could abruptly abandon me, who was trustworthy? I concluded that no one was trustworthy.      Life is Not a One Person Event  For…

Socrates is credited as saying that an unexamined life is not worth living. But, how often do we take the time to examine, ponder, ruminate, mull over, reflect, speculate, muse, wonder or meditate? Unless we take the time to ponder how we live our lives, pondering will never be a part of our lives. A…

When I was eleven my family moved from Aberdeen, South Dakota to Durango, Colorado. Living in Durango I encountered a new culture at my junior high, Spanish speaking teachers and students. I’d grown up in an English speaking home, and English speaking schools. The sound of Spanish was foreign to my ears and though I…

A friend posed this question to me, “If you had twenty-four hours to live, would you spend them with your siblings?” If she had asked me this question four years ago, I would have had to say, “no”. But today, I would answer “yes”.  Mending Family Matters, Matters Four years ago, when my middle born…