Family’ is not just a biological word, it’s an an operative one.

As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I...

I could tell he wanted the best for me. Of course, he assumed that would be getting out. Everyone always thought that, not of what we had to go back to, at home. Maybe our...

Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.