I remember as a young child being awakened by night terrors and laying in bed too frightened to move my arm the few inches in the cold dark to reach the light switch. I would look out into the blackness of my small bedroom and see imagined boogeymen or creeping…
Read moreI ask my daughter to take out the trash and I get a sassy response instead. I beg the two younger siblings to stop arguing and fighting, but tears erupt and one storms off the bedroom hurt. Later, I hear one daughter snapping at the other, complaining about some small…
Read moreA young 19 year old marries a 25 year old man with no job, no home and no plans for future education. My friend asks me, “Isn’t he planning to support her? And what will their lives look like in 6 years, when she has 6 kids, no job, no…
Read moreWhen I was in college, I had very little spending money to go around, so I learned early on to be frugal. I remember looking through the cereal boxes for the cheapest one and landing on Kashi (back then it was just one type of cereal, not all the yummy …
Read moreIt was a flurry of paper, ribbons flying across the room, tiny Barbie accessories caught up in the piles of plastic trash and I sat there in awe of it all. Was this what Christmas was all about? I had no idea what gifts anyone had received or from whom. …
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