Between You and Me

By Barbara Pierce   “I seem to be the one taking care of everyone — my daughter has serious heart problems, my brother can’t

By Barbara Pierce   “Oh! Look! How sweet!” I said to myself as I walked along the path outside my home. A baby rabbit

By Barbara Pierce   Neuroscience has demonstrated that chronic complaining changes your brain. (This is not the good news, keep reading: I’ll get to

By Barbara Pierce   I had a child with special needs. I had a child who was very challenged and very challenging to raise.

“Don’t you ever, ever throw anything of mine out!” my friend Dee hissed at her husband, pounding her fist on the table to emphasize

By Barbara Pierce   “This is it. I’m dying. I feel sure of this,” said Donald, who was once my partner. Now that his

Let’s celebrate who we are beyond the mirror. Let’s focus on what really matters in life By Barbara Pierce   Suddenly, a sharp knock

By Barbara Pierce   I’ve been grieving lately. I lost my partner—lost him to dementia. The shell of the person he was lives on

By Barbara Pierce   “I do expect to see you at my graduation!” read the text from Crystal, my 21-year-old granddaughter. So here I

The challenges of being a mother of adult children By Barbara Pierce   “Casey is moving to Mississippi this weekend,” said my daughter, in