It was suggested recently to me by a friend that my blog needs to be more educational. Emphatically suggested. This was in response to her encounter with a woman who just obtained her third divorce and unfortunately was not aware that if you are married longer than ten years you are entitled to some of your ex's social security. Even more unfortunately for this woman, she signed her divorce papers ("divorcing a DOCTOR no less!") nine years, eleven months and three weeks after

Today is an anniversary of sorts. X had begun his yearly pilgrimage to a divorce attorney about 3 months prior, and this time it was serious. So serious in fact, that I had to go meet with an attorney of my own to get a handle on what was coming. There is a whole story around these three months in 2013 that is too long to tell here in a blog post. Wait for the movie. But here is a sneak peek at how it ends. (Well, that time.) After some pleading on my part, we went to an i

This is a hard one. I'm just fresh from the funeral of a dear friend, someone who loved life and his family. He died within four months of an unexpected cancer diagnosis at the age of 56. So many at the funeral were asking, "Why?" Heart wrenchingly, I know he even asked the question during his final weeks. We're humans and we struggle to understand big questions like this, to put things into our own, albeit, tiny perspective. There are so many things to wonder about . Why i