This is our happiness jar. We bought it at 10,000 Villages. And it’s stuffed full of remnants from some of our best days over the past six years.  Concert tickets, ballgame tickets, dated corks from dinners together and with friends,… Continue reading

‘If there’s one thing I believe more than I believe almost anything else, it’s that you can’t fake what’s at the heart of you. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It’s a god we must all obey,… Continue reading

For all of 2017, I watched my mother suffer. I did it mostly during our phone conversations, and sometimes in person. I did it reluctantly and, admittedly, sometimes sparingly. I did it in ways and with emotion that I cannot… Continue reading

2012 was the year the Mayans said the world was supposed to end. They got that wrong. Except for the world I lived in. It imploded when I came out that spring. And it’s been falling apart, coming back together,… Continue reading