The year of failure — Thoughts for my 25th birthday

In 2 days, I will turn 25. Kind of a big birthday in my eyes. On my last birthday, I wrote a column about the discipline of celebrating what is good, even if life is hard. It was a good piece that I still think I should abide by. The thing is, I wrote about how life...

2 supportive parents = 3 artist children

What do you get when a Forester and a Therapist have kids? Apparently you get 3 artists. What? Before she died, my sister was going to school studying math and music. To be honest, she started as a math major, because she was brilliant. Truly. And then somewhere in...