As we approach the heart of the autumn season, we are deeply enveloped by the sights and sounds around us.  The sky changes its hue from summer’s bright blue to a slightly more ominous shade. Black, red, and deep orange decorations are lining the store shelves, dotting trees, and are appearing on the doors of just about every house on the neighborhood streets. We are…

What is the line? It’s the split second pause between the doctor saying his name when you answer the phone, before he says the results of your tests. It’s that split second of sheer terror when you go for a routine physical and they demand more tests. It’s that shock to discover something abnormal on or in your body. It’s that space on the head stone between the two solid numbers…

When a newborn baby cries, a mother’s knee-jerk reaction to console somehow doesn’t seem fast enough, at least to her. In the instant of hopping out of bed faster than a Twilight vampire, they must suddenly traverse a maze of doll-sized clothes, squeaky toys, pacifiers, diapers, and other baby items that grew out of the floor over night as they were certainly not left there before bed. Not only that, but she suddenly realizes that the floor  must be made of melted marshmallows as every…