At this time when what we have to give is so much about our most basic expression of humanity, I am thinking about kindness. Kindness is the quality of being...

It is a difficult time. The brevity of that statement belies the complex and novel circumstances that many of us are experiencing. While COVID-19 is now part...

Recently I met with clients for a consultation. Neither could quite explain how it had gotten to the point that they required a meeting with a mediator. One ...

A problem occurs between you and someone you know well. Your first instinct is to avoid talking about it, telling yourself that it will blow over. But the o...

In perhaps his best-known work, "Swimming to Cambodia," Spaulding Gray, a monologist, described his obsession to have a "perfect moment."* Gray divulged tha...

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returnin...

Often, only in hindsight can we see the beginning. As we take stock of a year that has just passed and the vicissitudes of fortunes that we may have experien...

No matter how accomplished we are, how planned our life has been, how generous or kind we are, at some point we will have to address change. We are remarkabl...

Rodin's The Burghers of Calais. The dramatic and heart wrenching embodiment of suffering and resignation. Before this moment captured by Rodin of six leading...

Parenting coordination can help parents make necessary parenting decisions. A parenting coordinator works with parents to: 1. Create and/or implement a paren...

I have a tree in my front yard that has become taller than any other. It is a Chinese Redwood given to me by my father as only a sapling in honor of our shar...

Sometimes arguments take a life of their own, but most between family members or couples have a familiar rhythm. Watch this marital squabble between Sid Caes...

I recently saw a performance at the Public Theater about Joan D' Arc. (Written by David Byrne of Talking Heads). It got me thinking about her passion, her pu...

Cooperative behavior and the ability to read intentions of other people are increasingly believed by social psychologists, I think, to be the essence of huma...

Change is the only constant Heraclitus Change is inevitable and is by its very nature not static. As such, are in a perpetual relationship with it. We can me...

We humans are social beings. As we strive to have relationships with other people, it is through this interpersonal connection – the thoughts, feelings, and ...

Listening — even when you have the answer is sometimes all it takes. It can be incredibly difficult. Watch here!

The more I am confounded by life, the more I try to rely on Eric Fromm’s words: “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human exist...

I recently watched this incredible short film, Look Beyond Borders, that recorded people looking into another’s eyes based on the premise that 4 minutes of e...

“Forgiveness is what has let us live again” remarked a young Xhosa man named Koyisha with pride as he showed one type of living arrangements in his township....