Role Reboot

The F***ing Family Dinner: How I Cured My Family Of Our Cursing Habit

With every fuck this and fucking that, the power of the word began to fall away, piece by fucking piece. I grew up in a wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-if-any-word-harsher-than-heck-slipped-out-of-it kind of family. Descriptive, intelligent vocabulary still appeals to me more than four-letter expletives. But the two boys my partner Kim and I adopted from the Oregon foster care […]

How My Extended Family Made A Fractured Thanksgiving Whole

We can’t control when people shift, change, or vanish from our lives entirely. But when we are open enough to let the right people support us, we can build our own families from the ground up. Margaret Atwood once wrote that divorce is like an amputation. You survive it, but there’s less of you. When […]