These are terribly pressure filled times. The pressure builds on so many fronts. From the distant thought of, “Is this the end of the world?” to the day to day, “how am I going to fill my day?” and everything in between, there are pressures all...
Eight years ago I drove past Bella playing on the playground by herself at Penn Hebron. She wasn’t crying or even looking sad. However, my heart broke…shattered. She was 30 feet away and yet a million miles from me. I couldn’t help, I couldn’t...
I was graduating from high school. It was the spring of 1989. I passed my yearbook from friend to friend (and people I kind of knew that handed me theirs). I never wrote trite things like “ttyl” or “kit” but I always tried to say something...
A young teenage girl (NOT BELLA) went to the mall with her parents. She was going to meet her friends. Tragedy struck as her friends were late. She was waiting out there in full view of all that were at the mall, right next to her parents. She kept staring into...
Imagine your child runs up to you. They’re bleeding from an unfortunate umbrella as a parachute off of the roof accident. You take to action and give him two aspirin. Good parenting right? No? Oh, that’s right, a blood thinner to someone that is...
It’s probably not in the forefront of your mind. You don’t walk around thinking that you’re a terrible person. It’s in those quiet moments when you let yourself (and others) down. You can’t believe that you did it again. Why do you do...
