No matter how close or distant a parent was in the  emotional plane, the locational plane or the acceptance of you plane, when they go,  a huge chunk of your history goes with them. This is the only person who can remember your childhood clearly.  Siblings may recall parts but if they are close in age, their memories will be fuzzy or distorted and if they are much older than you, they likely were not paying much attention to you! So saying goodbye to the time capsule that is your parent is a flux in the system. Gone is any…

It has been quite a year. In some ways it feels like the guardrails were removed and we’ve been careening through these last months turning corners on two wheels! As we close out 2018 we all have a lot on our minds. Global weirding is all around us: cluttered oceans, climate change, political strife, mass migrations, racial tensions, opioid addiction, homelessness. It’s grim stuff for the holidays. What’s most interesting though, is that somehow, in the face of everything the news hurls at us hourly, the overwhelming majority of people still remain hopeful. Acts of love and kindness continue to rise to…