It was a long drive and Eve cried most of the way home, because the big day hadn’t gone the way she had hoped, not that big days ever did.  Tom Perrotta in “Mrs. Fletcher:  A Novel” If my writing is not clear enough, I am self-diagnosed with empty nest syndrome.  A very real phenomenon…

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size. Mark Twain By the time my son got to high school I was highly involved in his sport’s career.  He was a…

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