I’m sitting in my sister’s beautiful home, listening to my kids and their cousins squeal with laughter as they play in the “bouncy bounce”. All morning they’ve been playing outside in the snow, only to come in to warm up with hot cocoa and marshmallows. The bouncing in the basement is a wonderful […]

… 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.