The DPC (Dead Parents Club): Or, In Defense of Gallows Humor

Jordan was first. When my close friend Jordan – husband of my best friend Erin – told me his dad had shot himself, the whole world changed for all of us.  My mom was sick at the time, in the second year of her ultimately three-year battle with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as [...]

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Holy Crap, I’m a Godparent.

It has finally happened. The thing I have been anticipating for years, but was pretty sure wouldn’t happen until one or the other of my siblings got married and had children, which, no offense to them, was not exactly like IMMEDIATELY UPON US, so I thought I had a minimum of like five more years [...]

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The Biggest Statue Of Jesus On Earth

I’ve never been to Rio. (Wait, isn’t that a song?) But the statue of Cristo Redentor (Portugese for “Christ the Redeemer”) gives me goosebumps every time I see a picture of it. If I’m honest with myself, I probably first saw this statue in an action movie, or possibly the TV show “Alias”; it’s the [...]

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