Exploring one of life's most valuable gifts
When I first started dating my husband Mark more than five years ago, one of the things that drew me in was how connected he remained to his closest college friends. They’d celebrated milestones, weathered difficult transitions, and somehow kept showing up for one another across decades. Their friendship story began more than 45 years... Continue Reading →
Labor Day symbolizes the end of summer, yet it also marks the beginning of a season that's always felt more grounding to me. It’s the back-to-school season that in the past often meant the start of a new apartment lease in my adopted hometown of Chicago, and, more than once, a transition to a new... Continue Reading →
Last summer I wrote about the memorable trip my son John and I took to England and Scotland prior to the start of his freshman year of college. I was grateful for our time together, and we were both excited and a bit nervous about the major transition he was facing with the move to... Continue Reading →
