Being Grateful for the Tough Stuff

by Amy Hoopes | Nov 13, 2024 | Relationships

Communication fumbles can offer more than one lesson on gratitude As we round the last corner of the calendar year and enter the holiday season, many of us will find ourselves engaged in traditions emphasizing the value and practice of gratitude. Countless...

Stay or Leave

by Staff Writer | Mar 25, 2021 | Relationships

Should I stay, or should I go now? If I go, there will be trouble. And if I stay, it will be double. The Clash lead vocalist Mick Jones sings these words in the iconic 1981 punk rock song, “Should I Stay or Should I Go.” It’s the epitome of...

Our Father’s Tears

by Kerry Lusignan | Jun 12, 2020 | Parenting, Relationships

Here I sit, on the cusp of Father’s Day, feeling both with and without Father — while the earth has a fever and pirates run amuck. I remember my father crying. I’m not sure when or at what age, though I could venture a guess — I was (perhaps) six. It was over our...

Mothering in Times of Sorrow

by Kerry Lusignan | May 9, 2020 | Parenting, Relationships

When my daughter was two, she found a bumblebee lying on our stone pathway. It was late August in New England – when gold-trimmed monarch cocoons dangle under milkweed, and sleeping pompoms of woolly bear caterpillars nestle in leaves.  To the naked eye, the bee...