“Your father is very sick.” This is not what you want to hear from your parent’s oncologist, but precisely why I was by my father’s side at his appointments. The coldest days of winter 2017 were also the darkest days, as I was living in fear my father,… Continue reading
“Make yourself useful,” my dad used to say to me when I was seven, standing around, twisting my arms into skinny pretzels while he washed our family station wagon. The suds splashed around the blue plastic bucket, his strong forearms scrubbing the baby… Continue reading
As Father’s Day approaches, Fred Warburg Peters and Clelia W. Peters sat down to discuss how they maintain and grow their working relationship. Here are their top nine tips. Continue reading
Why is it, no matter how old we are, there’s a part of us which continues to seek our parent’s approval? My mother never was the kind of parent who believed that everything her child did was extraordinary or brilliant. A couple of years ago, I wrote a … Continue reading
I was 11 years old when my parents brought my younger brother and me to Manhattan to see the musical Annie. Even though we lived in Queens, trips to the “city” were a big deal. Broadway tickets cost much less than today, but still expensive for a famil… Continue reading