I love to travel, try new foods, ingest caffeine, and watch political news coverage. A psychologist by training trying to bring a little common sense to it all.
There is no magic pill to make awful people nice. There is no fairy godmother to remove awful people from our lives. There is no fairy godmother that will give us a glass slipper allowing one to live in a highly-guarded castle. Awful people are everywhere. They pop […]
I should know better And indeed, I do But yet, I don’t know better And, I know I should I should know better But I do the opposite Fully aware I’m not doing better It’s the same old story Time should know better But it […]
He hadn’t been out for a run in a long time. He long ago stopped caring about everything including his fitness and health. What did it all matter, anyway, he thought. Nothing was going to stop the inevitable. Maybe he was too cavelier about everything but no […]
I don’t even know where to begin. The last 24 hours were extremely stressful and anxiety-inducing. At 6:00 a.m. two days ago, I received a text message from my sister noting that she was scared. She was very scared. Then, I didn’t hear from her at all for […]
Life is coming at us fast. Super fast. I manage to complete one task and three more come onto my to-do list. We have one hurricane make landfall followed by two more within weeks of one another. I have to monitor congressional funding cliffs and healthcare bills. I’m […]
Fifteen years ago I walked over 100 blocks in the New York summer sweltering heat to find the right dog for me. I did that four weekends in a row. Weekend after weekend I went to the upper East Side animal shelters looking at all the dogs that […]
There’s no way to escape the truth Even when we lie to ourselves Our truths linger in the precipice Our lies bleed onto our conscious The truth’s hangover is deep Waves of guilt pushing out the venom Crying only brings more pain Nose to the bowl […]
Poor little girl purple. She tried to be a good girl. She laughed and smiled and brought good humor to everything she did. Or at least she tried. There were always going to be those that didn’t have such a disposition and they would, in turn, try […]
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He knew that he was an old soul. His body ached despite his youth. He tried to find love and heart everywhere he went. Yet, at times there was no such love back from the world. But he would continue to persist in his quest. That […]
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