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...

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...

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...

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....

A new year and a time to recommit. I reflect on the work of Dr. Sherwin Nuland, clinician, professor of bioethics, and author of How We Die and How We Live: ...

Hospital discharge plans can be compromised because of lack of family support. This can create the condition for multiple admissions and otherwise avoidable ...

Seventy five years in the making, the longitudinal study of 268 male Harvard undergraduates, called the Grant Study of Adult Development can be found in Geor...

A recent NYT Magazine Cover article, Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead? discusses the work of Adam Grant, whose work focuses on reciprocity and its power...

Research has confirmed what many of us may already know: we are far better at spotting bias in others than in ourselves. While we may recognize the existence...

“He conquers who conquers himself” counseled 70 year old Rodriquez the other night as he began his set. Rodriquez, the singer/song writer who is the subject ...