Five things I learned in therapy

September 16, 2026
I'm a believer in therapy. Real therapy. With a good therapist. (Not all therapists are good.) Why do I believe in it? Therapy teaches us how to understand the life we're actually living—and how to stop making the same painful mistakes. (If we choose to. Some of us just love to keep the old...

Big Love, different love: is it possible?

February 17, 2011
I'm not sure anyone could've known that the HBO series, Big Love, would be the hit it was.It's about polygamists trying to live their religious principles in the greater...

Waiting on my bookshelves

February 16, 2011
I used to keep every book I bought, which is how I ended up with 30 fairly big boxes of books, boxes that I dutifully carried from city to city over several decades....

Questions I need answers to

February 15, 2011
1. When Mad Men is coming back2. When Army Wives isc oming back3. Why The Closer only had half a dozen episodes after theirsummer break.4. why I had to scour the...

One Fine Day

February 15, 2011

It’s not love or money, after all

February 15, 2011
The nature of relationships has changed.In fact, seems obvious that the nature of our relationships is cultural.It's something that changes with and adapts to our...

Nature’s valentines

February 14, 2011
Red flamingo flowerTree heartValentine greenValentine webCoral reef,...

Enough about me, let’s talk about ME!

February 14, 2011
What makes for good conversation and company?It's mutuality, I think.Give and take dialogue that no one dominates.That is shared.An ex and I used to spend time with a...

Travel

February 13, 2011
This would have been our third year in northwestern Italy, staying at the charming Baur B&B in Acqui Terme.But we decided instead to take a cruise this May that...

Forgiveness heals the world

February 13, 2011
The practice of forgivenessis our most important contribution to the healing of the world.-Marianne...

Jesus etc. and etc.

February 13, 2011
It's Sunday somewhere and time for a Jesus hymn.Alright, so many of the places where it's now Sunday aren't Christian.Get over it.✝It's Sunday and time for a Jesus...

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