By Jill Parshley-Cardillo Happy New Year From all of us at Chooseafamily.com We wish you many blessings for 2023!   By now you’ve hopefully settled into your membership exploring a variety of new friends here, and updating your photos and profiles as you potentially make new special connections.  Life is about connection. As you delicately choose the […]

The year my father died, it was finally revealed to me that there was no Santa Claus. Daddy was the bandit behind the missing homemade chocolate chip cookies and the gooey crumbs purposely left on the plate. Our dad was the one who made it appear as if the milk was completely drunk, leaving a […]

By Jill Parshley-Cardillo Now that January 2022 has come to a close, here at Chooseafamily.com, we have one thing to say…you DID IT! You made it through another January, amongst some of the most challenging times the world has seen in a while. You are here, alive. Take a breath and a bow. One of […]

Nineteen years ago. It may have felt like it was in your own backyard. Was it? It was in mine. Whether it was New York City, Washington D.C., Pennsylvania… anywhere you were… it left our hearts bleeding and a void still struggles to be filled ’til this day. Where were you then? Where are you […]

I, like many others, gratefully have found a substitute father, friend, and mentor. Of course nobody can replace the real him, but at least now I have a chance at having the conversations in my adulthood I would have liked to have had with him after he died when I was 9. Anything from how do […]

Family is a concept generally associated with a group of people who are affiliated in some manner, in both physical and metaphorical manifestations. Traditionally, we view family as pertaining to our immediate biological bonds, the parents who raised us, the siblings who both loved and tormented us in equal amounts. We extend family to include […]

By Dr. Nero Cavaliere It was Kierkegaard , the Danish philosopher, who said “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards”.  Thinking about our past  is helpful in assisting us in making  the right decisions today , but we must keep in mind that every moment  of the present slips into […]

By Dr. Nero Cavalieri It was Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor-philosopher who said, “All is as thinking makes it so.” What he meant was because we react to life’s events through the use of our five senses, the way we perceive anything is predicated on how we think about it.  In other words, the things […]