There I will sit back at my home thinking back to this time faraway watching it shift change remains strong yet fade with melancholic overtones and tender thankfulness not knowing never knowing trusting   

     Chelsea sent some very happy birthday videos of family and friends enjoying the afternoon together at Gabriel's birthday party. As I cannot connect the videos I am adding the two photos I loved the most. His homemade birthday…

    Of course, I knew that a baby would change everything. I thought I knew what everything meant. I knew my heart would expand memories of my childhood and my daughter's childhood would all come back to me, combining…

    Barely had light fill the room my mother was purposefully clanking in the kitchen "Corey you can come to knead the bread" without unshuttering my eyes I asked was the yeast frothy? "No, but we can make the…