The movie 50/50 explores, with great pathos and endearing humor, what happens when a 27-year old man named Adam finds out he has cancer. His survival odds stand at 50%. This movie pulls no punches. It’s real. Adam’s best friend …
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If you could take a magic pill that would make it all better, would you? Or if you could give your troubled, or autistic, or ADHD child a magic pill that would fix all her troubles, would you? Would you …
Madeline ran downstairs to the dinner table. “Mom, Dad: the toilet is making a weird sound, like it is choking!” Travis and I looked at one another. “What?” I asked Maddie. “You know,” she replied, moving her dirty blond hair …
Last night, I read an article written by Phil Taylor from Sports Illustrated called The Sandusky Effect, and like so many things written by ex-athletes and sportswriters regarding the Penn State scandal, it ignored the perspective of abused children. See …
There is yet another controversy about Barbie dolls, and usually I tune these out. I will say it now in the interests of disclosing my filter: I detest Barbie. This has never been a popular point of view and because …
I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank you, but I don’t really know how I can. At least I can share my gratitude here and hope that in some way, some day, I can thank you. How do we thank …
I was 12. And if you would have been there in the house I lived in, you would have thought a beloved pet or relative had died or the Baltimore Orioles had lost the 7th game of the World …