This has been a bit of a harder Mother’s Day than most.  Not a total expert, since I have only had 11 so far, this one just strikes me in a much more difficult place than my previous.

It is our secon...

I have often wondered what my kids would be like if they were raised in a different place.  Not a different country, so much, as just a different climate, a different sensibility and pace.  

An old f...