To my sister on her 16th birthday
Dear Sister,
Sixteen years is such a short time. Right now, it doesn't seem like it because it's all you've known, but I was exactly that age when you were born and I could probably, if I choose to, remember a time that there wasn't a you in my world, but I don't. Since ...
Sweet Home Illinois
When things go wrong as they do, the saying goes that blood is thicker than water. I'm a firm believer in the idea that we make families of the people that we choose to allow in our hearts and keep them there. However, I'm really close to my mom and sister, who are ...
Birth order: fact or fiction?
There are people that dispute any kind of birth order connection to personality. To those people I say pffffffffffffffttttttttttt. And here's why: Our personalities are part genetics and part experience and part of our life experience is the house we grow up in and the way our part in that house shapes ...