“Just Wait till My Father Hears About This”

Draco Malfoy is my favorite Harry Potter character.  I know.  Some of you are looking at me, intent on avoiding the cunning Slytherin ambition I’m going to use against you.  (FYI, I’m a Hufflepuff).  Some of you are reading this, horrified that I could adore such a one-dimensional character whose redemption was lacking in detail. 

I love you. Thank you. God bless you.

This is my grandmother.  She passed away last year at the age of 106.  Personally, despite having been around for 35 of those years, I find it difficult to envision living for that long.  She had accumulated a vast amount of wisdom during that time — hours of listening to her had taught me that

Fearless Hope

Hope has been my constant companion for this past year.  You might be familiar with the tradition of picking a word for the new year instead of making a New Year’s resolution.  As I’ve started to do this in the past couple of years, the strangest thing is that it feels like the word chooses