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A Little over a Week into Being a Senior (?) Citizen

Nicoles Nickels

Oprah turned 60 the day before I did (she probably had a bigger celebration than I did). My friend, my daughter and I drove out to the beach. I find the beach so healing. I declared that I have the best daughter in the whole world because of the wonderful present I received. My daughter 1, her daughter 0.

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Book Nook: Become the Fire

Motherhood Moments

The daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and Yugoslavian immigrant father, Schmitz knows what it means to be an “outsider.” If you can see what’s really happening and what’s not yet happening, you can create solutions or find better ways of doing things. Someone who has this skill is often called a visionary.