The View from the Side

If you sit on the couch with them while watching a program, you can catch it.  The view from the side.  The profile view.  These two kids who, when head on are adorable and challenging and funny and just spitting images of you and your mate, look like completely different kids.  It's amazing what you …

We are All in Recovery from Something

I think maybe we are all recovering from the moment we are born.  From the moment we are pushed from that warm, all enveloping, safe space out into this cold, hard world, we are recovering.  Finding our way.  Forging our path.  And the thing is, recovery never stops.  Hopefully. We are all in recovery from …

You are doing a really good job

Seems like such a simple thing to say, to think, to pass along.  And yet, it seems a lot of us don't actually hear these words very often.  Or not nearly as often as we need to. As a parent, I tell my kids "good job!" quite often.  They tell each other "good job!".  They tell …