I believe that families are not only blood relatives, but sometimes just people that show up and love you when no one else will. In May 1977, I lived in a Howard Johnson's motel off of Interstate ...

So if you feel like no one around you truly loves you ... of yourself matters more than anything else, especially when it comes to being able to love yourself. Rather than allowing yourself ...

It felt like being high-fived while drowning. What they meant was that I was dealing with a chronic disease that didn’t show up on tests, that no one ... “If you found someone else, I ...