Graduation: The Glee and the Grief

   Life Passages are all crossroads. Crossroads are a place where one choice ends and another begins, a fork in the road of life’s journey. One of life passages is graduation from the academic world; where the student uses all the knowledge accumulated thus far, and puts it to use as they set off into […]

Advice from my Dad, Harry

My 97 yr. old Father does not want his funeral to be about being a brilliant attorney, a mediocre businessman or a father of six. He wants it be about ‘the ticket’. Not Taylor Swift’s ‘One-way ticket’. Or The Beatles ‘Ticket to ride’. Or even Willie Wonka’s ‘Golden Ticket’. The ticket is what my Father referred to as […]

Celebrating the Breath of my Birth

My birthday is this week. Birthdays were always peak experiences and life passages in our family. We saved all year for their homespun extravagance. We brought all the 5 senses to the birthday. Willed my children, who are all grown up now, “Remember the fire hydrant party, the bee party, the unicorn party, the sky writer […]

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Grief and Loss surround The End like a moat. Death. Finality. A dark abyss. But just like the moat around a castle, the moat does not define the castle or the light that glistens off the spires of that castle. It is just a necessary obstacle to cross to go in or out of that castle. Grief […]