Posts in Family
Firefly

November is the month when the word gratitude is used ubiquitously and, in my opinion, annoyingly since the overuse of it seems to dilute its impact. It’s not that I am someone who isn’t immensely grateful for the many, countless good things in my life. What has been revealed sadly is my ability to be grateful for the small things, but not for the big things. Any immense event was what threw my worthiness into question. It was always in the big moments like having my son, having my book published, moving to New York, and now the recent event that brought out the fear, marring the true enjoyment and gratitude of being the recipient of such good things.

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Families

We’ve heard the cliché and oft-repeated truism about how we may be born into one family, but in our lifetime we create new “families”, perhaps ones that are a truer reflection of ourselves. Obviously there is the family one can choose to create through marriage and children, but the “family” that has come to mean the most to those I know, including myself, are the ones we create out of whole cloth as we grow and take on adult lives.

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