For family caregivers, everything is fine until it isn’t. One cough, minor medical procedure, or incident of forgetfulness can spiral into months and years of emergency department visits,…
My chest is tight and there is a pit in my stomach. The hairs on my arms are standing on end. My heart is racing. I’m pleading in…
When I turned forty-eight in March, someone asked me how old I was and I found myself faced with a conundrum: To lie, or not to lie? On…
Expectant. That’s the word that comes to mind when I think of women like Coretta J. Gray; women who approach life with a kind of pragmatic confidence that…
As a woman of a certain age, my primary life goal at this moment is to evade the lure of Auntie-ism. What is Auntie-ism? Glad you asked. It’s when…
I waited and waited. It was 11 p.m. and my mom still hadn’t returned from picking up my three-year-old daughter from pre-school. It was close to midnight when they finally arrived…
Not too long ago, my sister and I attended a concert at Virginia’s Wolf Trap theater. Our friend had gotten four of us free tickets through her company,…
It seems everywhere you look people are listening to podcasts. It is no surprise, since these downloadable installments are available online and come in an array of topics…
Millennials, who are likely the most studied and talked about generation to date, often get a bad rap for their so-called exaggerated sense of entitlement. While there is…
So you’ve decided to lay the groundwork for establishing your family’s history, but you don’t know where to start or even how to begin. Documenting your genealogical past…
