One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

No, this post isn’t a reference to a Paula Abdul song, but rather an example of how I feel sometimes as I try to get a hold of this “being a grown-up” thing. It’s a new year and the now-concluded holidays of Christmas and New Year’s are often a time for major life changes for [...]

The Tough Stuff

Finances. Medical decisions. Funeral plans. None of these are particularly comfortable or easy topics to discuss, but they are among some of the most important. No one wants to think about the financial realities of life, even when we know we have to. Nor do we want to think about our deaths or the deaths [...]

Ten

I remember crowding into my dorm’s common room to watch the news coverage on the big screen television. I remember attending a spontaneous mass in the middle of the day, because there was literally nothing else we could do. I remember watching Pretty Woman later that night, when my friends and I were burned out [...]