I recently returned from Maine, where my family spent a week’s vacation. I’m now ready to relax. My wife and I have been going to the same location for about 20 years. It’s a family-owned cabin in Lincolnville, near Camden on Route 1 along the coast. There’s not much to Lincolnville, really. You’ll find a small beach nestled between two seafood restaurants and a rocky inlet … [Read more...]
How to Release Your Child While Embracing Ordinary Moments
It was a day I hoped wouldn’t end. I sat on my porch swing taking in the moment. The sun was slipping behind the trees. The flowers were bright around me and a breeze was on my back. The birds were singing, the cattle were walking to a cool place for shade. Another Sunday was over, another week checked off the calendar. A moment so predictable yet so different. It was … [Read more...]
Lessons From the Kool-Aid House: 1984
The four of us met in the 6th grade. There was me, Cathy, Laura and Missy – Mrs. Grant’s daughter. We were inseparable for all of our middle school days and a decent piece of our high school days. We did what all 13 year olds do – endless sleepovers that usually involved us planning our weddings to our respective men of our boy band (Duran Duran). We just knew they were going … [Read more...]
Notes From the Grave – Is It Leaving a Legacy?
In the movie “My Life”, Michael Keaton starts a video journal for his unborn child when he learns he has a terminal illness. We watch as he records messages to be played at a later time – presumably after he’s gone. I think a lot about death and dying. Not to the point that it consumes me, but having lost a parent at a young age (60) and being a mom to three, the thought … [Read more...]
