“I’m proud of you” are the four words I always want to hear As a Words of Affirmation gal, they’re things I need, kind of a big deal I’ve cried plenty, disappointed in myself for disappointing you And eventually I felt like I had to make someone else proud too Each job I left, each time something ...

When my Dad died, I was shocked to hear that the beneficiary had been changed on his life insurance policy. When my aunt helped him fill out this paperwork, he had her put my Grandmother, my younger sister, and myself, his oldest daughter. Yet, sometime after my Grandmother’s death and my father’s heart attack and ...