There is a popular school of thought going around lately that would suggest that we are all ultimately responsible for everything that happens to us—the good and the bad. A lot of people think... Read more >>

I like to know ahead of time if a story has a happy ending, so sometimes I cheat and fast forward to the end of the movie or I turn first, to the last page in the book. Unfortunately, it doesn’t... Read more >>

Before starting this article (as I have started now), I was thinking about what to write as this is gonna be the first article I would ever write. After turning my brain topsy-turvy, I thought,... Read more >>

I need to tell you that I have an obsession for colored doors and windows. Today I am choosing the red door for Christmas! As a little girl living in the west side suburbs of Detroit, every Christmas... Read more >>

As a teenager, I lived in breathless anticipation or sickening dread of the inevitable drama with a capital D that Monday mornings brought with them. Who had hooked up with whom that weekend (and... Read more >>

That is all I am now. But that is all I want to be. How do I begin knowing the person that I am other than his mom? My lawyer turned to me and said, “You might like some time to yourself once in... Read more >>

“When you’re anticipating some future good, you’re preventing that good that is all around you from expressing through you .. (Don’t) put life on the layaway plan and try to... Read more >>