Inspired by the great nation we once knew, sharing the joy of past, the pain of now and hope for our future.

Sharing a brief shining moment from childhood that inspires the greatest gift of Christmas -- a Mother's love.

New Mom's birth announcement wows and heals across generations with sacred family name.

A Crucial Fact  My friend Mike liked being here.  He discovered with considerable  enthusiasm  my apartment living area was a comfy fun...

Bereaved-parent Inspired Never Say Goodbye is a concise, inspiring, heartfelt account of love  and healing by Marie Ramundo Pardi. ...

Bean's Birthday - 1967 It was June 5, 1967, my sister Eileen’s 4th birthday - a day that beams brightly in my mind's eye to this very...

Child on the Mall It’s the week before Christmas on the local mall at the height of holiday buy-season. It is late—near closing, which is...

A father's legacy of love remembered, on the record and ready to print, 30 years after his untimely loss. Lov, Bri.

My Baby’s Pain I watched in nervous marvel as my baby daughter insisted to venture from crawling to walking undaunted by dozens of prior failed attempts. Pulling herself up, she stumbles, tilts and bonks her head on the coffee table. Ouch. That one hurt. Her piercing cry penetrates my very soul. There is a millisecond flash of stunned confusion on her angelic face as this strange unwelcome thing called ‘pain’ registers in her budding new brain. Then her pure-white innocence t

The Best It was the best of times. My wife and I and our two daughters are on Disney family vacation. Coming back from dinner, we pass...

Memorial Respects I made a rare visit to my hometown in New Jersey this summer with my sister Kathy. Mandatory on the agenda was a...