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.
This past week, someone reminded me of the Maya Angelou quote of “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” This thought has been simmering in workplaces and in the public consciousness for a while now. It is a warning that has teeth. Many […]
He presented himself as a sad, broken man. He sat across from her with his head hanging low with a furrowed brow. Something was wrong but she was convinced it wasn’t a broken spirit. He was lying with his posture. But what was he masking? Everyone in the […]
I’m shiny like a newly polished bell I’m brimming with sparkling confetti I’m glistening like a golden globe Incandescence is my middle name I exude a quiet and loud radiance You know it Now you can embrace it Enhance it Be enchanted by it Now you can stand […]
I love watching movies. Or rather I should say I used to love movies and then I liked them and now I love them again. I made a very deliberate effort last year to watch, on average, two movies in the theaters each month. Granted, there are […]
I am going to admit it. Not that there is anything to really admit. When people preface something with such a phrase, it makes it seem like there’s something for which to be apologetic. Thus, I am not going to admit to something. I’m just going to state. […]
Happy new year. It is the year of the pig starting today. I personally think pigs are very cute. They may be cuddly but have never had a chance to cuddle one so I do not know about their cuddle factor. There are many who have had […]
Early in the am, I stopped and took in this rainbow public art. And, just thought of how much I love my beloved New York City. It’s a place where even at 5am, you can find a place to be yourself. It’s a place where at 5am everything […]
Many years ago, I taught a session on how many of our popular sayings contradict one another and leave some people in a state of mass confusion. For instance, you have “birds of a feather flock together” and “opposites attract“. Both are correct in different contexts. Friends […]
Upon waking up she went into her bathroom closet to grab her medications. She then smelled this weird chemical odor and she sniffed around to find its cause. She wondered if it was coming from her. She then wondered if she was dead. What proof did she have […]
I have never been that great in taking a compliment. Although, I most definitely know how to toot my own horn and blow my own trumpet. I actually wish I had learned to play the trumpet in school. It is such a vibrant, energetic instrument. Instead I learned […]
