Articles
Good Morning. Who are you?
Is being married better than not being married? Apparently so – or not - at least to the thousands of gay men and women who have jumped on the bandwagon to marital bliss. At a time when divorce is at it’s highest, 93% of all Americans still long for a walk down the...
If You See Trouble Coming Through the Door – Close it!
Most of us can agree that although life can be hard, it is also grand. I believe that every experience and every person in life is in service to our growth and our personal soul work. However, are some of us are gluttons for punishment or what? Have we been caught up...
Too Sensitive or Not Sensitive Enough?
We are rapidly becoming a society unconsciously desensitized and moved toward apathy about almost everything. Our experiences are now mostly second-hand thanks to the electronic era of computers, televisions, DVD and movies. We see lush green forests, vividly colored...
Do You Want To Dance?
Ram Dass (formally Richard Alpert) tells the Sikh story of the Holy person who gave each of two of his disciples a chicken and said " Go kill the chicken where no one can see." One of the students went behind a fence and killed the chicken. The other walked around for...
The Bag Lady Syndrome
Columnists write their articles a month in advance of publication. These days that has become a bit more challenging. What might happen between this moment and a month from now we wonder. Another disaster? A life changing event or illness? The world is changing from...
What Matters, Anyway?
What really matters? Who are we, what are we really here for and who, other than our mothers, gives a damn? I do! And I want these questions answered. Maybe it's because I am getting older. Maybe it's because some of the people in my life who are about my age are...
Through the Eyes of a Child
Perhaps we should begin to see again through the eyes of as child. Before she has become tainted with the beliefs of adults, if you show a child war, she becomes confused with the inconceivability of it. The child will reach out in tenderness and understanding...
Life is Not Fair!
Life is not fair. After contemplating the inequities of life, my clients often find themselves speechless when I ask them, "Who told you life would be fair?" It is not! It is random serendipity, without an ounce of rhyme or reason as to whom good or bad things happen...
Where Have All The Good Guys Gone?
If I am not careful, this could be the week I decide the human race has gone to pot! I have been dealing with an utter lack of integrity with business people who promise things they know very well they can’t deliver. Is everyone in society following the role models of...
Independence Day 2006
Happy 4th, but are you really? Independent, that is. When are we truly independent? The German philosopher, Kant, had the idea that we were not yet mature or independent if a book takes the place of understanding, or when an outside authority takes the place of...