My husband is the one who usually does this, but the other day, I had the opportunity to go pick up my stepson, a 9th grader, for the weekend. As we headed out, Corin asked, “Do you want me to tell you some stories from my high school?” On the hour-long ride from his mother’s house … More Higher Learning
Life is strange and unpredictable. Dali famously said, “I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.” That’s never happened to me either, but I have, when I least expected it, felt a copperhead’s fangs sink into my foot, or got to pet a … More Winning Even When Losing
I’ve never been one to make New Year’s resolutions, but I have made and kept life resolutions at random points in time unrelated to the calendar. In these final hours of 2015, as part of a promise I made to myself last spring to focus on the positive and to celebrate the small wins, I … More New Year, Same Old Wins
Maria Linn 