Humans are fascinating. No matter our age or circumstance, we are all driven to connect in some way. Relational to our very core, we are born with the essential tools for connection – equipped, as it were, to engage with others and with the world around us in order to make meaning, build security [...]

I bid my two eldest sons goodbye this past weekend as they returned excitedly to university life.  Like usual, my feelings were mixed:  happy to see them striking out and saddened by the space left behind. No better remedy for a little melancholy than housework. About 45 minutes in, counters gleaming, my breath caught in [...]