A vital responsibility for parents is to provide healthy influences for their children during developmental years, to help those children learn to thrive.
A Non Refundable Christmas Gift
I have spent more than 25 years as a feminist activist fighting for justice for victims of sexual abuse. This is my coming out story as an incest survivor and learning to live with PTSD.
Going, Going, Gone: 14-Year Old Boyness
There exists a perfect stage in every male’s life, where the boy is fading away, and the man is emerging.
The Single Father’s Guide to Life, Cooking and Baseball
A year or two after I became a single father, I started to get calls from women to whom I affectionately refer as “Platonic Female Friends (PFF’s).” Although the callers were unrelated as far as I knew, the topic of the conversations were strangely similar.
Family Memories In Burnham
It was just like any other Thursday, or so I thought. “Come on, you’re not going to school today” said mum. Excited at this prospect, I also felt apprehensive. My Mother had a habit of doing things like this and being unpredictable. This time her unpredictability was positive.
The Worst Secret
The assignment was to write our worst secret, the thing we would never live down, the thing that… ‘dismantles your own sense of yourself.’ And everybody knew instantly what that thing, for them, was.
You Annoy Me, Now Kindly Let Me Love You
In this follow up to Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here, author Lisa Lucke continues describing her spiritual awakening.
Father’s Wake
FATHER’S WAKE Yesterday, we buried apa, my father. Today, I sit with people I do not know. Attend a Mother’s Day brunch at the Hungarian Church hall. Courtland township beside Lake Erie. Muddy, unpaved roads: listening to the cimbalom. The zither. Only yesterday we were singing a requiem to him. “Your father bought the tickets,” […]
Life Lessons
I was born into a family that has loved and accepted me, and I can only imagine how difficult that was for them. This is my way to thank three people who have made my life worth living.
A Mother’s Wish
Eventually the “to do list” was done. I had to realize that Megan was going away for the first time, for more than a week, and she would be with people I didn’t know in countries that were foreign to me. My daughter was going to be quite literally on her own, far far from home.
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