My version of family has always consisted of love. To me, your family should be there to help you bend before you break. They are your support, your confidants, and often times end up being your best friends. It doesn’t always happen that way, but even when our blood relatives fail us we still search [...]
Meet Jane. I have known her since I was 12 years old when I met her daughter in junior high school, the 7th grade. We were best friends, always from then on into adulthood, and Jane was the mother I wished I’d had. The whole family, 5 kids altogether, embraced me and included me on [...]
Closer to my thirties more now than ever I can’t help but compare the status of my life to those close to me. Its it healthy? Not at all, but I think a little part in all of us does it. All of the friends that I grew up with are married with children, a [...]