Letting Go of the Remnants of a Dream…

In the summer of 2012, my then fiance brought his lawn care equipment and tool chest to my house to store in my garage. Having received a coveted fellowship at a major university, he closed up the house he’d been renting and moved to the central part of the...

This Is Us…Or Should Be

Confession: I have never watched the popular TV series “This Is Us,” which ran for nearly six years. Many of my friends never missed an episode, but me? Nope. Never watched it. I was thinking about that phrase yesterday–this is us–as my...