Q: I attend Al-Anon because of my wife’s alcoholism, and someone at a meeting was talking about the importance of boundaries. What did she mean? A: To understand boundaries, try to imagine that you have a small picket fence surrounding you. The fence has a gate. You can control the gate, opening it when you […] Read more
Stories by Jacklin Andrews
Children must discover death and dying on their own terms
Q: My grandmother is dying and we’re trying to decide whether to take our four-year-old daughter to the funeral. I want to take her with us. I believe she is old enough to know that death and dying, life and living, are part of the constellation to which all of us must pay homage. My […] Read more
