Author Archives: simonehamelsmith

Attitude is everything- and I try to have a good one. Remain open, manage my expectations. Reframe in the positive. So there is this- I love choral music, and I used to love to sing, and I haven’t really had that in my life since Trinidad; I have missed that deeply. But the thing IContinue reading “Part 18: The Space Between”

How soon is too soon to get back to life after losing a friend?  Ethan-Jonah and I both lost friends tragically  over the holidays and are walking around only partially engaging in life, and only perfunctorily engaging with each other and the rest of the crew that we are sequestered with. I want to be aContinue reading “Part 20: Grief Revisited”

Welcome to Raising Cain. This started as a series of musings on motherhood and grew to set of twenty, and counting, essays on parenting and life. I am a mother of four sons, living and working as an educator, and previously as a therapist, in Indiana. I am originally from Trinidad where I was bornContinue reading “Hello!”