The young woman stood in the garden, clutching a bunch of dead flowers.
"This place needs a LOT of work," she thought.
Looking around, she began to formulate a vision for what the garden could become.
She pictured family and friends sitting around the table, enjoying a Fourth of July barbecue. She would need to make room for a grill. Kids would need a place to play as well.
"I can't do all of this by myself," she thought.
Then she realized that she's been trying to do too many things by herself. Maybe that's why she was alone at...
Every morning, the No. 7 bus drives down Cherry Lane. The kids waiting for the bus get splashed by a puddle whenever it rains. A homeless man sees it happen every day that it rains.
One rainy spring morning, the homeless man had enough. He walked right out in front of the bus before it could reach the corner.
The driver stepped out of the bus in a rage.
"Are you crazy? What are you doing?"
"Something. I'm doing something."
He raced around the bus driver and hopped into the driver's seat. He maneuvered the bus around the driver and...
My eight-year-old brother couldn't sleep. He had watched a scary movie, and its main character was invading his thoughts.
"Is Dracula here?" he asked.
"No, he's back home in Transylvania," I assured him.
"Maybe he's visiting!"
In order to distract him and help him get to sleep, I came up with an idea.
"Let's make a mixtape of songs that will keep Dracula from visiting us."
I serenaded my brother with tunes that sent Dracula to all sorts of locations. The bloodthirsty count sailed away to Key Largo. He visited "Aruba, Jamaica ..." and the other exotic locations in the...
Was that a smile?
Yes, it was! It was, in fact, the most beautiful smile I had ever seen.
We waited two years to see that smile, that recognition that from now on, everything would change. Not that everything would be perfect, but that we would be together.
We would move forward together, we would tackle life together, we would be a family together.
Infertility is no joke. When you already have one child, nobody gives you any sympathy when you can't give that child a brother or sister. But in your heart, that child is real. That child is...