Progeny
We are not our parents’ children. I don’t mean youths, I mean the angry millennials, the harried newlyweds, the...
Relationship Gardening
Two seeds, watered, in good soil, with enough sunlight and care might yet yield two different crops. A rose is beautiful, a zucchini...
Chapman's Currency of Love
You’ve probably heard of Gary Chapman’s 5 Love Languages… originally conceived in 1995, the books and theory have been wildly popular...
Chosen Loss
We think of the processes of grief when we lose someone or something involuntarily - we might lose someone to illness or when a beloved...
Terminal Destination
More often than not, lately I’m feeling uneasy about a growing trend towards reaching the furthest possible point of a journey as the...
Endings, Beginnings and False Comparisons
Not all relationships last. Often, because who you are at one stage of life changes in another stage, that ‘new’ person finds themselves...
Relational Congruence
Ask a couple you know casually how they met, you’ll get a story. Most couples, by the time they’ve moved in together have a tale they...
Continuity of Care
The phrase usually refers to ensuring a patient receives the same level of services when they must change medical providers or insurers....
Cytokinesis
This year, we have 8 stockings hung on our mantle; so crowded, the adult’s stockings are hung on the sides instead of facing front. Years...
Family Funhouse Mirrors and the Holidays
Each day, we reinvent: we try a new hairstyle, offer a new strategy at work that gets props, we go an extra 5 minutes on the treadmill....
