It’s Valentine’s Day weekend, and Mr. Romantic, as they call him, scheduled a surprise trip for a precious family getaway in Puerto Rico. As soon as we got off the plane, that familiar smell of the salty Atlantic Ocean filled my chest. Even in another territory, miles from Ft. Lauderdale, I was home. I always […]

The Return In the fall of 2022, I can remember one of my first days back at my child’s school event where I was stepping back “into society” after months of isolation. I had just left the hospital and returned to my family to pick up the broken pieces of our lives, full of uncertainty […]
