I’m Not Ready. My son will graduate high school this year and I could not be more proud of him getting to this point. But then he threw me a curve ball; he said he is considering joining the military after high school. My heart sank. I immediately had flash backs of Operation…

How do you discuss death with your loved ones? Is it a taboo topic or approached as a ‘matter of fact’ inevitable end to your life? How have you prepared to dispose of your belongings once your spirit has departed? …

Every summer I can remember until I was in my mid-teens, my sister and I were ‘shipped off’ to the farm where we lived with our maternal grandparents, rode horses our grandfather kept for us on the farm, and generally roamed freely on the eighty acres of fields and woods…