January 13, 2017
Recently I visited the National Museum of African American with my gal pal Jaime Willis. A sobering yet surprisingly uplifting experience for me. I teared up twice. Both times the tears were more joyful than sad even though there is so much sadness to witness there. The first was when I read a copy of […]
November 30, 2016
Suffering from any of these symptoms since the election? “Recurrent, involuntary, and intrusive distressing memories?” “Avoidance of . . . distressing memories, thoughts, or feelings?” “Persistent negative emotional state (e.g., fear, horror, anger, guilt, or shame)?” “Sleep disturbance?” (click here for source) You are not alone. These are just some of the symptoms of PTSD, […]
November 27, 2016
Get ready for one of my more original socio-political experiments . . . We can choose so many responses when we are shocked, afraid, angry, or just plain perplexed. The complexity of our emotional state is matched by the complexity of our choices in light of that state. The presidential election, as my grandmother would […]
November 14, 2016
I wanted to write sooner . . . sorry, just needed a little time. I was a precocious and peculiar gay boy who grew up in an immigrant family as proud to be Americans as Italian-Americans. We were union people (descended from a likely illegal “alien”) who revered our savior FDR not for the alphabet […]
January 1, 2016
(audio version available at the end of this post) Clients ask the following question all the time: Should I stay (in my current job, city, relationship, etc.) or should I go? Change! Scary for most of us. Creating a method to help us decide when to move on is incredibly useful and reduces the fear […]
