I lost my Mom — my best friend at the time — 25 years ago. She never met my wife or kids, so they never got to know her. They never got to witness the almost-mythic soulmate relationship my parents ...
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Over the last few months, my son, my wife, and I have visited universities across the country to help find the right one for him. And after a long and arduous search, he has finally chosen the one he ...
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Life lessons from my garden

“A garden is a great teacher,” wrote Gertrude Jekyll.
As a 36-year-old, this is the advice I wish I could've given my younger self. I started writing my blog when I was a few months shy of 18 years old. Since I’m now twice as old as I was when I started, ...
“You only learn half the things you need to know in the classroom.” When I first heard that saying, I brushed it off as something adults said to make school sound deeper than it really was. But now, a ...