Spoiler alert: you most definitely can! I learned this when my first child was six months old, and it proved to be one of my most important parenting lessons. When I wasn’t rushing out to work, one of my favorite pastimes was lingering over a morning cup of coffee. After the baby was born, I’d […]
The news cycles have been saturated with those pitching for or against the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. What a shame, and what an assault on the balance of power that our founding fathers saw as essential to a vigorous democracy, that it seems to be taken for granted that our highest […]
After I’ve been working successfully with someone for awhile, we sometimes decide it would be helpful to ask a family member to join us, either briefly or regularly. If said family member comes reluctantly, he might say, “I don’t believe in psychotherapy”. Luckily, I can honestly respond, “I don’t either”. Psychotherapy is not something to […]
There really was a Davy Crockett, a man who lived during the early 19th century, who served in Congress and who died at the Alamo. He has also become something of an early American folk hero, with myths and legends built up around his life. It is said that he once came face to face […]