by Michael Neill | Family
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. -Elizabeth Stone Last Saturday, our family and friends went down to Point Dume, a beach in Malibu with waves that will knock you upside...
by Jacqueline Marcell | Family
For eleven years I begged my obstinate elderly father to allow a caregiver to help him with my ailing mother, but after 55 years of loving her, he adamantly insisted on taking care of her himself. Every caregiver I hired to help him sighed in exasperation, Jacqueline,...
by Chris Attwood | Family
Development of consciousness is key to learning Remember when you were sitting in school taking chemistry, or physics, or English lit, or some other class, and wondering, what does this have to do with me? Kids take classes because we tell them to. After all,...
by Healthy Wealthy n Wise | Family
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man’s lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?–Cicero The key to handling your parents is understanding them. Sometimes,...
by Debbie Mandel | Family
Just the word, mother-in-law, fills the heart with trepidation and self-doubt. This woman has assumed mythic proportions wielding criticism, guilt and coldness. When she visits, you feel like the inspector general has marched into your home. When she interacts with...
by Rebecca Bloom | Family
Just like us, children need to learn how to live prosperous lives too. As adults striving to integrate-and accentuate-our many types of prosperity, it becomes important to impart our wisdom to youngsters. Whether we have biological children, stepchildren, or have...
by Maya Talisman Frost | Family
I love slow living. It’s peaceful, meaningful and downright radical in a go-go world. According to a recent article in (appropriately enough) Time magazine, groups of harried parents across the USA are joining a wave of slow living advocates by doing something...
by Maya Talisman Frost | Family
I love slow living. It’s peaceful, meaningful and downright radical in a go-go world. According to a recent article in (appropriately enough) Time magazine, groups of harried parents across the USA are joining a wave of slow living advocates by doing...
