When my husband passed away two years ago, I thought the hardest battles were behind me. Raising three boys—ages 14, 12, and 9—alone was no easy feat, but we had […]
As a mother, I always assumed I had a pretty good understanding of what goes on in my child’s world. When my six-year-old daughter Tia first claimed someone was hiding […]
At 40, I was a man who felt like life had passed him by. I had been through my fair share of heartache, but nothing could have prepared me for […]
Life can often take unexpected turns, especially when it comes to matters of the heart and family. As a man who had loved and lost his first wife to cancer, […]
When my son was younger, I could tell he was different from other kids—smarter, more perceptive, and always ahead of his age. I sometimes joked that he was so intelligent, […]
Being a single dad isn’t easy. My wife left us to travel the world, and I’ve been raising my two little girls, four and five years old, on my own. […]
It was a gray California morning, the kind that feels off but you can’t say why. My one-year-old son, Jamie, was strapped in his stroller, his soft breaths fogging the […]
When my wife, Anna, walked out the door with nothing but her suitcase and a cold “I can’t do this anymore,” I was left clutching our 4-year-old twins in one […]