When we talk about a mini-stroke, or what doctors call a TIA, we’re really talking about a temporary blockage of blood to the brain. For elderly people, this usually happens because the arteries have narrowed over time or a small clot gets stuck for a few minutes. It’s scary because the symptoms often disappear as…
I’ve always wondered if the people we lose can actually feel us when we’re standing at their grave. It’s one of those silent questions that hits you late at night when the house is quiet and you’re missing them most. Most spiritual traditions say that while the body stays in the ground, the soul isn’t…
I’ve been a judge for over twenty years, but nothing prepared me for what I saw the night I decided to watch my own eviction order be carried out. It was Christmas Eve, and I was sitting in my car across the street from St. Catherine’s Children’s Home, watching twenty-three kids prepare to be thrown…
I’ve definitely had those days where I walk into a room and just notice a stale, heavy smell that won’t go away. Maybe it’s leftover cooking odors from dinner, a damp smell from the bathroom, or just that general “lived-in” scent that happens when the windows have been closed too long. Usually, my first instinct…
Melanie Griffith was everywhere in the late eighties and early nineties, and people just loved her. She had this soft, natural look that made her feel more like a real person than a distant movie star. I remember her in movies like “Working Girl” with that big blonde hair and expressive face; she really captured…
My husband and I have always had this nightly routine where we go out to the pool once the sun goes down. It isn’t about being loud or partying; it’s just our way of unwinding and talking about our day in the quiet water. When a new family moved in next door, we didn’t think…
We all have those people from our past who just won’t leave our heads, no matter how many years go by or how much life changes. It isn’t always about how long a relationship lasted or how intense the breakup was; it is really about how that woman touched a specific part of his life…
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Being a single father to three-year-old twins like Bella and Lily is a beautiful kind of chaos, but lately, that chaos had turned into a crushing weight that I wasn’t sure I could carry much longer. Their mother walked out when they were infants, leaving me to handle the remote IT work, the diapers, and…
I used to think a tea bag was done the second it left my mug, but I’ve learned that these little pouches actually have a whole second life around the house. If you spend too much time in the sun and end up with a painful burn, a used black tea bag is one of…
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I was sitting on the porch of a massive white-pillared mansion, listening to my friend Margaret list off her gifts like a scoreboard. She gestured to the sprawling estate and told me that when her first child was born, her husband built her this house as a reward. I just smiled and said, “Well, isn’t…
Rose and Charles had been married for fifty years, and to everyone else, they were the perfect couple. But at seventy-five, Rose felt she had disappeared into her roles as a wife and mother without ever finding out who she really was. She told her sister she had lived her entire life for everyone else,…