The empty chair in this photo represents all those kids who aren’t love or protected. The starkness and shadowing represent the despair I feel every time there is another news story about a broken, abused or murdered child. As a father, I take each and every one of these stories like a punch in the …
As an older parent, raising a young child, I want my daughter to choose the extra-curricular activities that help her express the woman that she is becoming, and I do not want to spend valuable emotional currency attempting to force her into courses and activities that do not sync with her sense of self. That …