A life well lived is filled with humor and marked by service. During the last couple of weeks of my dad’s hospital stay, the medical team transferred him to another unit in preparation for his discharge. It was the best news ever! While there, I was routinely surprised by how […]
How come some find and sustain love that lasts a lifetime, while others languish perpetually in loneliness and misery? This year, when my dad was in the hospital for two consecutive months, each night, my mom slept on a hospital chair by his hospital bed in different units, including Intensive […]
Last fall, I had a perplexing experience. For some time, I felt like Alice in Wonderland, floating in the air, as my wildest dreams came true. Then in the flash of an eye, I plunged headfirst into a dark reality. It seemed it had all been a dream. I was […]
A piece for Valentine’s Day Must love be returned to be worth the effort? It seems many believe it must. Therefore, we have an aversion to the term unrequited love. Unrequited love is love that is one-sided or unreciprocated, and many have a negative reaction to the idea. Perhaps because […]
How we attach determines whether we languish, survive, or thrive. When I was a child, I believed my parents existed to take care of my sisters and me. Hearing my mom refer to us as handkerchiefs God gave her to wipe her tears, and watching my dad consistently prioritize us, […]