It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way.

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat.

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.