Proudly I’m a Jill of all trades: Don’t ask me about crocs, dark matter or dog grooming I take great pride in being a jill of all trades. As a social psychologist, who is embedded within a community based organization, I have to develop knowledge across a wide […]
Its wacky Wednesday: can I be part clone and part howler monkey to silence the critics It is a wednesday morning here in New York. The trains are packed and the two cups of coffee have yet to kick in. Its drizzling and the finely fixed bobs will […]
My glutes and mind are longing for a walk on the beach Many find comfort in the hot salty aired beach embedding their toes into the granular sand streams. Many love to get golden with the sunblock-filled sweat dripping slowly from the body. I, do not enjoy the […]
Blindsiding in the workplace: My longstanding pet peeve I have great peripheral vision. I think it has something to do with having grown up in the South Bronx. Walking home from the subway at night meant being extremely vigilant staring ahead trying to gauge what was occurring […]
The psychology of field (retreat) day: Sadness and joy at the dewy mist The flight was nicely uneventful other than the fact that my ear drums felt like they were going to burst. One of the worse things possible on a business trip is getting sick with […]
Great Expectations: Bathe in Truth Cream The door is smeared with bloody prints The floor is littered with smashed-up dreams Madness lies in the furrowed squints A hundred ideas wasted on the blasted regime Brush out the deviled lint Fly up above the horrid stream Muddy waters always […]
Circle Art: From the weeds to the cocount drink A circle is a thing of beauty and abstraction. You can spin around in circles or you can center yourself within a circle. You can move with its forces or you can stand still and watch the world […]
The pentagon has a zombie survival guide and there’s cocaine in the toilet: This week’s wacky news Happy spring. We are knee deep into the allergy season and a majority of us are sneezing up a storm. It may be that all that sneezing, coughing and sniffling […]
Time to put on my grannie panties When I first heard the former education secretary Margaret Spellings advise incoming White House Press Secretary Dana Perino that it was time to put on her “big girl panties” I was awestruck. I felt no better phrase captured what women […]
Last but not least I’d like to thank my Latina Mom twice This past weekend saw the celebration of Mother’s Day. Sunday was a gloriously beautiful day in New York. Everywhere one turned you saw flowers, bird houses and pies on sale as part of the Mother’s […]