Garbage & Rocks

When 27-year-old mechanic Jay Withey left work on December 23, 2022, he had no idea he would spend the next 48 hours becoming an accidental Christmas hero. A historic lake-effect blizzard—one of the deadliest in Buffalo’s history—trapped him on a road near Pine Hill School in Cheektowaga, a suburb. Jay had ventured out into the blizzard to pick up a friend who was stuck in the snow. But soon his t...

What chicken noodle soup can teach us about being better humans. 

From what I hear, this is how most of us feel as we move into the middle of our lives—not in a moment of crisis, but through a slow-motion demolition, a dismantling, a deconstruction, a years-long pulling off of the band-aid to reveal the wound underneath.  I think the best description, however, comes from Brene Brown when she describes it as a “midlife unraveling”.  She says, “The truth is that t...