adulthood

  • Many Hands, One Garden

    I was having a conversation with a young friend recently about raising children. And when I say young, I mean young. I am pushing seventy, and she hasn’t quite managed to leave her teenage years behind yet. She is a sweet young woman who has come through some difficult things in her short life. What…

  • The Chapters Before Us

    Father’s Day has a way of making me think about things I didn’t understand when I was younger. Not because nobody explained them to me, but because children have a limited view of the world. They see what’s directly in front of them and assume that’s the whole story. When I was little, I knew…