The tickets had clung to my bulletin board for months. Finally, today, I’d meet the revered Dalai Lama, the highly respected Buddhist Tibetan leader and Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but I prepared myself to be forever changed by this man and his words. I wasn’t disappointed.
Of course, our meeting […]

Recently, my first grader came home with an adorable book he had written at school. The stapled, yellow cover held four pages of lined paper, each with his own illustration next to the words.
As I sat down, ready for a touching moment reading my son’s first novelette, I could feel him beaming with pride.
And we […]

Published on YourHub.com, 3/10/07
Every afternoon, it begins.
Well known as “the witching hour”, the 120 minutes between 4 and 6 pm are loudly marked by whining, fighting, and anticipation of injury.
All at once, kids become hungry, dogs need to poop, fish bowls turn green dirty, doorbells gong, phones ring. Naughty words are tested […]

I grew up watching my aunt raise a family of five boisterous, funny children.  The stories of my cousin burying all of his mother’s good jewelry in the back yard to prepare for a for treasure hunt, or another cousin super-gluing all the dining room chairs to the floor and proclaiming he “saw the guy […]