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 other person can’t rest and wants to work it out (their way). You feel pressured to engag...

In perhaps his best-known work, "Swimming to Cambodia," Spaulding Gray, a monologist, described his obsession to have a "perfect moment."*  Gray divulged that he had a tendency to fantasize about the life not lived -- the possibilities rather th...

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-returning spring.

Walt Whitman - 1865

Written in the wake of deep mourning after the assassination...

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 experienced, I wonder. If everything turned out well in the end, how do we make sense of all the...

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 remarkably resistant to change, even if we acknowledge it is needed or would be in our best inter...

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 citizens of Calais leaving the gates of their beloved and besieged city, nooses around...

Parenting coordination can help parents make necessary parenting decisions.

A parenting coordinator works with parents to:

1. Create and/or implement a parenting plan for their children.

2. Minimize conflict and improve productive communication in...

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 shared love and wonder about the mystifying nature of a Redwood grove.  

It is...

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 Caesar and Nannette Fabry to Beethoven’s 5th and consider what looks familiar to you. 

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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 purpose for living, her raison d’être. In some ways, she had it easy (well, just on this i...