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Strengthening Kindness Through Mourning

Sometimes it takes the worst tragedies imaginable to shake people outside of themselves. Our world can seem so divided until...

How to Help a Friend

Throughout my teenage years, I started to notice something new and different emerging within my closest friendships. I seemed to...

A Special Mask

Before we can fully move forward into a life outside of our pandemic-related boundaries, I feel like it’s going to...

From ‘Fake Nurse’ to Hero

“Are you sure she’s a real nurse?” It was hard not to notice that my neighbor Christy, the operating-room nurse...

Empty Nest: Party of Two

Empty nest. Two words have never terrified me more in my life. In my alternate reality, it wasn’t something I...

Coping with the Death of a Friend

I’ll never forget that dreary fall day. Gray faces mirrored the dark sky as the news made its way around...