Credit: Alloi Omella  – Ayutthaya, Thailand: Our family visited this site on a cycling trek with Kal and Ellen, our beloved friends/family   I’m sitting in the

In Beijing at this hour, it is the morning of Emily’s adoption day. 17 years ago today, we met this little peanut of a girl,

 Laughter and tears are close allies, their arms often intertwined like besties, this I am finding out.  Charlotte has a bag of Dove chocolates sitting

  It will be just a memo today because I woke up late after wild dreams of not being able to control my Grade 1

My starts are slow and perambulating these days, but they’ve taken on a routine. I turn up the thermostat, shuffle into the back bedroom that

  The stages of grief are not linear: they are a snarly ball of yarn that is so tangled you want to hurl it into

  My youngest daughter has been dead for a week and a half now. What new starts can even be had?  I want to unstart,