Navigating Grief

Navigating Grief

“I’m turning in my resignation,” I said peering away from the chaplain in the medical center. She answered me with a simple, “Why?” “I could barely keep from crying myself,” I confessed. After several weeks of training at a psychoanalysis institute in downtown...
Creative Children

Creative Children

“Creativity takes courage.”- Henri Matisse “Dance is for everybody. It’s a way to express yourself, to tell a story.”- Alvin Ailey “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”- Maya Angelou 5-year-old Sage  participating in an American...
Choose Courage

Choose Courage

If I had to live my life over again, I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would take more trips. I would...
Father’s Day 2024

Father’s Day 2024

My world took a nosedive on September 15, 2001, when my dad died. Nothing can prepare you for the grief. I was a daddy’s girl; I look like him and had a mole on my right hand in the same place he had one. Nothing can prepare you for the grief. Psychologist and...
Mother’s Day 2024

Mother’s Day 2024

Happy Mother’s Day, All. If you’re a mother, grandmother, daughter, or adoptive mom, in a few days, it will be time to honor you. But honoring mothers isn’t designated to a certain day, but something to do on an ongoing basis with a phone call, a small gift, an act of...