July 29, 2020 I recently had an early morning dream about my mother.   I was running through my apartment, entering rooms and opening windows to let out the smoke from my recently finished cigarette.  I must have been younger—haven’t had a cigarette since 1987.   As I entered one of the rooms, there was my mother, […]

On Thursday July 23, I gave a Zoom talk to members of Helping Parents Heal.  I shared our journey, told the stories of The Letter from my Dad and our Moment in Paris.  I described how our first book, Suffering Is The Only Honest Work came to be, and provided a sneak peek into Book #2 which […]

Most adults would claim that Dandelions are WEEDS and they have absolutely no business surviving and thriving in an otherwise perfectly manicured lawn.  Adults would say that because they have lost their ability to actually see the magic of a Dandelion.  Unscrew those adult eyes and screw in the eyes of a child. Dandelions are […]

We celebrated Hilary’s birthday last Thursday.  I won’t mention the number—suffice it to say her seventh decade is in the rear-view mirror.  With the quarantine and all, a surprise party was out of the question.  I decided to create a virtual Birthday Card for Hilary and asked family and friends to send birthday messages, videos […]

“Unexpected kindness is the most powerful and most underrated agent of human change.”John Kerrey Two roads diverged in a yellow wood— She took the one to travel with me In November 2018, Hilary read in the San Diego Union Tribune an obituary for Joan Kazmarek.   It was beautiful.  It even opened with a slight variation […]