The other day I was sitting in my car in the school parking lot waiting for one of my children to be either retrieved or deposited. I forget which because most of my days are spent in a never-ending, dizzying loop between home and school. Since moving to the suburbs of Boston, this has become […]

… in terms of growing up, PAIN IS PART OF IT. In fact, one of the four noble truths of Buddhism is the explicit acknowledgment that suffering is part of the human condition.