Entering Old Age
This past week several patients fretted about their fears of looking old and unattractive if they stopped coloring their hair. This has provoked for me a lot of thought about
Finding Home
My dad was in the Army when I was growing up. My brothers, who were much older than me, spent their childhoods among extended family in Massachusetts and Connecticut. I
Really? Whatever Comes To Mind?
I have posted before about secrets in therapy and every time I have, questions arise. Often people conflate privacy with secrets. So today let’s revisit this somewhat difficult issue. Privacy
Let’s Talk about Dreams
This painting by Edward Robert Hughes makes me think of the oddness of dream images. And so today I want to start to talk about dreams. A few years ago
Muddling Through
For the last couple of weeks I have written about traditions and their importance for the holidays. Today I am thinking about the song, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”
What I’m doing today
We got snow the other day, not as much here as further south of us. Though this photo is not new, it looks very much like that today. So today
Traditions(cue Fiddler on the Roof)!
Christmas 1951 As you can see, the photo is my family’s Christmas brunch in 1951. The brunch was my grandmother’s annual event. Everyone in the family who could attended. I
Thinking About Thanksgiving
It’s Thanksgiving Day. I come from a New England family, Mayflower descendants even so Thanksgiving was always sort of “our” holiday. After we moved back to the States from Japan,
What would I do?
Like many of you the tensions surrounding the election and the renewed intensity of the pandemic sapped my creative energies for a while. So for the past couple of weeks
Be Still My Heart
What was rumored a few weeks ago is becoming a reality — In Treatment Season 4! Uzo Aduba (Emmy® winner for “Mrs. America” and “Orange is the New Black”) will