Posts from the ‘current events’ category

Forget Sex in the City: Master the Use of an Umbrella in the Urban Jungle

Yesterday I received three severe weather alerts on my phone. After seeing the destruction hurricane Sandy brought to the northeast and how the tornados have deeply…

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The month of May: flowers bloom with the morning dew, roots uprooted in the noon

If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.–Audra…

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What’s Your Tipping Point for Disassociating From a Loved One?

No matter what your child says or does, stand by them and love them. All of us must find our own way, and live up to…

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Little Feet and the Trajectory of our Lives

In my facebook newsfeed this past week was a friend’s photo of baby socks she had just purchased as she enters her eight month of pregnancy.…

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Will Psychologists Go the Way of the Cowboy?

Singer Paula Cole asked “where have all the cowboys gone?”, disillusioned that things are not what they had seemed to be at first. Where is my…

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Happy Mother’s Day: Let’s Hear it for the Pork

Winston Churchill once said, “I’m fond of pigs.  Dogs look up to us.  Cats look down on us.  Pigs treat us as equals”.  Puerto Ricans tend…

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The Psychology of a House of Horrors in one’s Neighborhood

After I checked into my hotel, I rode up the elevator not really noticing who else was in the elevator with me besides my work colleagues.…

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The Dhampir: What’s a Mixed Race Monster Supposed to Do?

Do you love Buffy the Vampire Slayer?  Do you love Supernatural?  Did you love the X-Files, Battlestar Galactica and Farscape?  Why the love for science fiction,…

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