Grandparents Day is more than a month away (the Sunday after Labor Day), but I find myself thinking about the power of grandparents right now, in summer, when my kids get to spend extended time with their grandparents. I was lucky; I lived close to both sets of my...
Have you ever gone into your phone to find a certain picture only to scroll through old family vacations and holidays and random moments of your kids being cute or silly or just plain them? We have so many stories hidden in our phones (if you’re old school, you’ve got...
Every summer when my family vacations together, I bring a large jigsaw puzzle with us. I dump all of the pieces on a big table that we reserve for this activity and we slowly piece it together. We sometimes work on it together, but we also just individually stop by...
One of the best ways to find meaning in your life is through narrative storytelling. In The Power of Meaning, Crafting a Life that Matters, author Emily Esfahani Smith points out that “taking our disparate experiences and assembling them into a coherent narrative...