THE ROAD LESS TRIGGERED

snow angels purpose

One morning, I wake up doubting my calling to be a writer in a thousand different ways. It’s...

joy

“We think this would work better as fiction.” I’d submitted my proposal for the second non-fiction work of...

loveable

It’s May and endings are everywhere. Aidan is graduating from high school. Quinn is graduating from eighth grade,...

Will Smith

You probably think you’ve heard everything there is to say about Will Smith. You haven’t. Nor have you...

true self

Ten years ago, I discovered myself to be a creative. A writer. A blogger. A new voice in...

self-awareness

The car almost blindsides me. I’m exiting the interstate on the way to my office, having just passed...

anger

It looks like anger is tearing our world apart. It’s not. Anger has no power to tear anything...

courage

The plane is taxiing for takeoff and my ten year-old daughter Caitlin is terrified. She’s sitting next to...

death and resurrection

This year, the maples all turned purple. They usually die all at once in an explosion of blood...

kids resilience

Several years ago, when my daughter was five, she played soccer and got kicked in the shin during...