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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]