The icicles hung

on the branches of the crape

myrtle, its double

 

jointed trunk slightly

bent—an oracle frozen

in mid-sentence.

 

I nuzzle my nose

against each of them, staring

at often, overlooked

 

slices of living,

finally understanding

the value within them.  

Laura Carroll posted a well-researched argument that parents are more likely to regret their decision than people who choose not to have kids. I hope this encourages the nudges out there to stop telling the childfree that we will regret our decision when it's too late -- like the doctor who pushed and pushed a childfree friend of mine to freeze some sperm before his vasectomy.… Continue

I was talking with a man recently who’d been caring for his dying father.



"I left him to take care of some personal business,” he said. "I knew I shouldn’t have gone because something inside told me not to go. But I didn’t listen. My father died while I was gone."



Regret. The word originates from Old French, regreter, ‘bewail (the dead),' feel sad, repentant, or disappointed over something that has happened or been done, esp. a loss or missed opportunity



"If… Continue