After spending most of our respective adult lives’ travelling the world, my wife and I moved to a small rural community in the Sunshine...

I’ve been a public defender in Seattle for twenty-two years, tried many adult and juvenile cases, and negotiated plea agreements more...

A few years back, my son Jacob returned home heart-broken from school. “What’s wrong?” I asked him. “Some kids at school were laughing at...

Recently I spent some time with a young moms’ group. As I talked, toddlers swirled around us, and a few moms nursed babies. I’d had the...

It seems simplistic in light of what has been transpiring since last fall (Harvey Weinstein et al, #metoo #timesup etc.), but a couple of...

Love passed, the muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity newfound; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought and magic...

It’s pretty common wisdom that the way we parent is significantly influenced by the way we, in turn, were parented as children. That...

When our mothers die we come unmoored. There is no one to call on a Wednesday night to ask how you can tell if frozen food is still good;...

We do the best we can as parents. After all, there is no instruction manual. No required classes to take. No certification. People just...

You hear it all the time. Marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition. You have to give your one hundred percent. The math in this statement...