flawed but authentic

“You are special” “You’re a special mom” “On your special day” the cards say. We all want to be special.
I find my peace in learning that I am not special. I am pretty much the same as everyone else. We all want the same things underneath it all: to be free from fear and from [...]

I can’t make all the difference I want to in my job. At least, I can’t always do it with a positive viewpoint. There is enough reality in my life to know that I can’t affect all the change I want to because it is, simply put, impossible. From getting students to see their best [...]

“Private party,” my son said to a kid climbing up the inflatable slide set up at the park for a friend’s birthday.
Uh-UH.
He said the words without hostility. I knew he was only repeating what he’d been hearing the other children say since the party crasher had jumped aboard, but still…uh-UH.
I called him by his first and last [...]

I have met with a weekly spiritual study group on and off for a decade. We study “A Course in Miracles,” but I have come to believe that the benefit for the group members is not so much the topic we study as it is in the time we spend together.
I think that just having [...]