Dear Girlfriends, I close this series on happiness and what my mentor has taught me with what might be the most important truth modeled by Ava: to live with unfettered joy – learn to care… less. One Sunday evening, while our family dined at a neighborhood restaurant, I took Ava out for a stroll to “work out the wiggles” while …

Dear Girlfriends, For our family vacation with the kids last summer, we headed to what’s called a family-friendly “resort”. This was definitely not Steve’s and my typical get-away scene, as the wine-tasting events were displaced by sippy cups of milk and reading a novel by the pool was replaced by “Sugar, catch me!” as Ava torpedoed down the slide. One …