Time Doesn’t Necessarily Heal – January 2024

As I write this, it’s January 8th. A new year increases our interest in taking the time to reflect, plan and dream. In the Northeastern U.S., we slow down because it’s cold and dark, and it’s nice to be home with candles, Netflix and soup. We think about those...

Although My Eyes Were Open – April 2024

  And although my eyes were open                                                                                                                      They might just as well have been closed.                                                                             ...

Never Too Late – August 2023

At age 69, I just started reading Creating Your Best Life by Caroline Miller. The book is a guide to creating meaningful lists to help accomplish one’s goals. Several years ago I gave it to my son, Bobby, when he was struggling with drug addiction in an attempt to...

In Memoriam – June 2023

Too many people are not far removed from knowing someone who has died from an accidental overdose. This is especially true where we live as we are only about a ½ hour away from Kensington, Philadelphia’s notorious open-air drug market. A friend of our son, who...

Doing Things Backwards – May 2023

It is not expected in our culture that children will die… We will leave them. They won’t leave us.And then it is over…It is an affront. It is a reversal of nature.-Martha Whitmore Hickman When I decided to publish my book Dear Bobby, I began an internet search for...