Live to Tell

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

Parents think the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is cancer. They’re wrong; the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is mental illness.

I want to cry but I don’t. I don’t. There are pieces of yourself, so many pieces of yourself, that, once you give away, you cannot get back again.

All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’?” “Anna Karenina.

Being at the easternmost edge of the time zone, Massachusetts has one of the first sunrises in the country.

A child’s bonds with his or her mother are extremely powerful, so any negativity in the mother is being communicated to the child.

Alex said, his voice subdued, tense. “So it would seem,” D.D.