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...

New Year fantasy

January 1, 2011
A snowy Christmas in Salzburg. Anywhere in Austria will do, though. Complete with a horse-drawn sleigh ride through the snow. That's my fantasy for 2011.The neat thing...

Turning the page

January 1, 2011
The calendar page has turned and another year has passed.A new day.A new month.A new year.We can look back and learn.And we can look forward and live.Happy new year,...

On cheating

January 1, 2011
I've been in relationships where I've been tempted to cheat and in others in which it would never occur to...

Starting fresh

December 31, 2010
It's 5pm here in California, while in New York and Florida, my friends have slipped on their dancing shoes and gone out to start the party.In the London, 2011 is already...

Culling

December 31, 2010
Even if I only need this stuff once my whole life, she said, it's worth it & besides, I paid too much to get rid of it yet.could be...

Friends

December 31, 2010
You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long...

Another way of looking at it

December 31, 2010
has a really beautiful soul but hasn't found a way to express it yet -Storypeople...

New Year’s Eve message from God

December 31, 2010
Have a great evening.But have a designated driver,...

The difference between losing & quitting

December 30, 2010
You're not defeated when you lose. You're defeated when you quit. * Losing implies we were in the game.That we made the effort to get to the finish line.When we...

Forever & ever, amen

December 29, 2010
It's been a long time since forever was part of my vocabulary. It's unfamiliar terrain.There's not a place I've lived that I haven't known another would follow.Not a job...

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