Tag Archives: Family and Relationships

Just getting patients to eat again is only half the battle -- getting them to change their minds is even harder.

The "hero", Matthew, arrives on stage dust-spattered and debris-battered, having escaped from a World Trade Center Tower on 9/11.

African mothers aren't criminals. They are limited in their resources, lacking the physical strength and legislative power necessary to invoke the only viable alternative.

I've measured every patriotic event against that day. All fall short with hyped-up attempts at externally prompting that which can only be internally felt.

Make a little less noise now and then -- and hear a little better.

Children manage to say the most delightful, funny, and sometimes inappropriate things, no matter how young or old they are.

Each time I conquer a memory, it's one less thing from my past that has power over me.

When I think about Father's Day, I think about missed opportunities.

Eating out, staying in, and some stark facts of life.

When the only ritual you feel like doing on Father's Day is spitting on his grave while you're checking to make sure the bastard is really dead.