Ferguson
I don’t remember any three weeks in history infiltrating my psychotherapy office the way August 9 through August 29, 2014 have. Each...
Robinson Elementary: Challenges and Empathy
Last Friday, I had the pleasure of joining a group of elementary students, their teachers, and student helpers to discuss Challenges and...
Maya Angelou
I met Maya Angelou once. I was a young social worker and she was an old soul, even in her fifties. She signed my books and looked me in...
What Grown-Ups Need to Know About Art Therapy for Kids
I truly enjoy working with kids. I did so early in my career as a family and child therapist and clinical social worker and again later,...
Visions of Violence: Making Sense of the Senseless
Like so many Americans, Helpers, and Educators, I was confounded by the events in Newtown, Connecticut. In addition to being horrified...
Building Culturally Considerate Schools: What Helping and Adjunct Professions Bring to the Table
This week, Equity Alliance at Arizona State University published a blogpost I wrote. Please click on the link below to read. Also,...
Nora Ephron was my hero
Nora Ephron was my hero. Crazy Salad: Some Things about Women was my guidebook for how a smart, funny, and conscientious woman should...
Can't We All Get Along?
Rodney King’s reticent question has been both praised and ridiculed over the past twenty years. By his own admission, many of the...
M/other's Day
My mother always wanted me to write “nice things.” “Truth isn’t always nice, Mom,” I would reply. “You should write children’s books,”...
Narcissistic Altruism
Beginning a blog is a lonely endeavor. It’s rather like journaling in the hope that several hundred people stumble upon it and feel...