I don’t need a hero.I need home – Not a place but a feeling. A place where my nervous system can exhale. I don’t need someone to come in and save the day—no knight in shining armor, no great white horse, no dramatic rescue. I don’t need fixing. I don’t need spectacle. I need someone […]

My mother is dying. She has two types of cancer slowly eating away at her insides. She’s on a maintenance regimen of chemotherapy that is killing the bad—but also slowly killing the good. Her body is exhausted. She’s on over a dozen different medications, many of which she probably doesn’t need, and we are in […]

Recently, I sat courtside watching my eight-year-old daughter fight her heart out for first place on a basketball court she had never stepped onto before this season. Weeks earlier, she told me, “Mommy, I just feel it (basketball) inside of me—I want to play.” And she meant it. By the fourth game, she made her […]