Sunday, August 12, 2012

• The future is rushing toward us -- and boy oh boy is it a lollapalooza!

  Sunday, May 19, 2013
• The art of patience is perhaps the hardest of all in politics and motherhood

  Sunday, May 12, 2013
• Life is full of surprises, good and bad, but often you have to look for them

  Sunday, May 5, 2013
• Spending a week in the city with a new rallying cry -- Boston Strong!

  Sunday, April 28, 2013

It is so palpable that I am tricked into almost tasting the dust of the chalk as the gymnasts slap their hands together. I practically feel it as the veins rise on their arms and faces and rivulets of sweat run down their bodies with the exertion. I'm exhausted. One after another, the scores are posted and the silver medalists collapse in anguished tears. I realize how different I am to the par...