The Defiant Chicken

We all experience moments burned so deeply into our memories that, even at the time, our souls whisper to our hearts and minds that from that moment forward our lives will be forever changed.

A first love, your wedding day, the births of your children, your greatest successes and most humbling failures, a painful illness, and the imminent death of someone you love.

Everyone who has had the responsibility and care of a parent understands the shifting roles that occur as one or both parents bec...