We live under a curse.  It is inevitable that at one point in our lives, we will have to come to grips with the loss of a significant someone and the myriad of losses it would bring.
 
After a loss, we go on, surrounded by echoes of that voice, reverberations of that laughter, vestiges of [...]

 
 Matthew has had swimming lessons since the age of four but he never really learned how to swim with confidence and the correct technique—- until today. 
 After three summers of lessons and four different teachers, we finally reached the breakthrough; we finally found THE teacher  who I may well credit for teaching Matt how to [...]

 My love of writing began with a love of books.  A childhood of reading brought me to an appreciation of the beauty and power of words. 
 Words stringed together in a sentence, and sentences woven into paragraphs can effect mood and create style that can both please and fascinate me.
 Words can fire up my imagination. [...]

 
I have this sense of futility and a sadness that perhaps, for all my plans for the future, I may never see the day that every parent aspires to see—that of seeing another generation of our children pass on our legacy.  Would I ever see my son achieve manhood, and fulfill his destiny?  Will I [...]

Every kid must learn how to bike.  It is a prerequisite for the enjoyment of childhood, a rite of passage.  Learning how to bike should probably be considered one of the stages of development that parents and their children must go through, next to crawling, standing and walking. Now they’re biking; the next thing  you’ll [...]