Spring break is a great time for me to take a breather after a busy school term and to re-organize parts of my life that have become a little frayed. During the school year, there's not much time or energy to be spent doing those deep cleaning tasks that...

I have spent the last week working on the concept of having, or being in a relationship and remaining in the 'now.' This is not a simple concept because we depend on our story, what happened in the past, our expectations of the future, where we are from, our...

So I sat down in front of my computer to write this week’s column, but all of my open tabs sort of called to me, and I started going through them instead. You guys.  There are so many things to do when you have one kid in Grade 12...

As you go through your day, it's wonderful to start off by being still. The day will begin, and there's a kind of quiet in the morning where you can be present to the rising sun. And if you can step outside simply to be in the presence of...

I must admit that I’ve always been a bit of an anxious parent. I always had this nagging feeling that something terrible would happen if I didn’t worry. I can’t tell you to this day what I thought worrying would accomplish, but at 3 am, that didn’t seem to...

As you go through your day, in your interactions with people, notice two aspects of yourself. When given the opportunity to speak, there is a part of you that will speak quickly. When given the opportunity to react, that part will react quickly. That is not really you. That...

by David P Carroll It's Saint Patrick's Day andEveryone is Irish todayAnd we'll have some fun along the way Green shamrocks and a colorful rainbowIn the clear blue skyAnd the shiny pots of gold are in sightAnd we'll sing and danceAll through Saint Patrick's night From San SebastianTo El Tuito and to...

When I was a kid--well, a smaller, relatively hairless kid--one of my more astute schoolteachers dared ask what the lot of us wanted to be when we grew up. Standard answers abounded: a future firefighter here, an aspiring athlete there, a couple of doctors in the second row, a...

A couple of days ago, as the weather made a sudden hard turn into Spring, I finished slow-poking my favorite garden fork into the weedy mess of my potager as the sun went down, heard flapping, looked up, and saw them settling in one of the big walnut trees...

Being the parent of teenagers is fun, weird, and frustrating. You live with people who are as tall as (or taller than) you but still seem to need so much help.  They know more than you about niche subjects like TikTok or pre-calculus, but they don’t know how to...