Everyone is aware and alarmed about the state of American society. Division doesn’t capture it. Polarized is closer. Sides are drawn on issues and leaders and no one is neutral. Civility has evaporated. No one in America is calm and sane when it comes to our opinions on issues and the leaders who espouse them. […]
The Attorney General’s report on the horrific school shooting at the Robb. Elementary School on Uvalde Texas was stunning and shocking. Based on what we all saw on the day of that tragedy, there was unbelievable negligence on the part of the law enforcement officials that day. And the Attorney General let them have it […]
Thursday, January 18, 2024 “I am not a gun owner, and I am not against gun ownership at all. If the need arose I would get a gun. Several members of my family are gun owners and I have no worries about their safe handling. They are trained and use it for firing at the […]
I am urged to share this excellent entry from the great David Attenborough Feeling this today: “My Mom once told me that she walked into a room where a couple of friends were discussing her, they didn’t know she was there. She shook her head, smiled and walked away. My Mom also told me that […]
Dr. Will and Dr. Sally Downham Miller will be launching a new series of YouTube videos featuring their shared and unique interests. Dr. Sally, a retired elementary school school principal is also an author and a nationally renowned authority in the area of grief and loss. She has made frequent appearances in national media especially […]
When Glenn Sparks and I wrote our book on social isolation (‘Refrigerator Rights’) we identified the twin patterns of moving (relocation) along with the surge of media (especially social media) as the root cause of our current social distress. As Marshall McLuhan shared ‘it’s the screens, not what is on the screens that is matter’. […]
I have been taking the Pilates class two times a week for six months and I am convinced. The history or this unique and growing exercise system has the most unique history. Founded by Joseph Pilate working with victims of a prison camp suffering in the early part of the last century. An amazing technique […]
I have chronic issue with my passwords and have no open else to blame. I have to keep learning and relearning to have a reliable system to securely document my passwords (all million of them!) someplace safe. But NO, I keep going to the ‘forgot my password link”, choosing a new one and then promptly […]
This Fall I will be returning to my psychotherapy practice after many years. I began as a practicing therapist the day I graduated from Columbia School of Social Work in 1990! But in the intervening years I drifted away from private practice to devote my time and energy to pubic speaking and, of course, standup […]