Same and Different
Last night’s presidential debate was a town hall forum, where the in-house audience was a group of voters who have not yet decided which...
Do You Need Anything? (Part Two)
Some of our good friends had a baby in the middle of August. They are in that bleary-eyed haze that parents of toddlers and newborns...
Do You Need Anything? (Part One)
Several years ago, my life hit this perfect storm of hard-and-exhausting but not-quite-devastating events. Imagine the combination of a...
Babies, Bathwater, and Partial Solutions
I have a fantasy image of how my life should run. In this fantasy, I wake up early every morning to exercise and spend quiet time in...
When you see THAT parent. When you are THAT parent.
Last night I was scrolling Facebook and I read a post from someone I knew in high school. She had witnessed a child having a total, all...
What It Means to Be Strong
Last week I was sitting with someone who is struggling. She has battled anxiety for decades, and had recently been hit with another...
Social Media Lies
A few months ago I posted one of my favorite pictures of my children. All three are piled up on the couch. They are all looking at the...
The Ideal
I can remember being fresh out of grad school and sitting in a room with five other female therapists. They were all significantly older...
Chapters and Stories
I love to read. I love to read all sorts of things, but my very favorites are stories that grip me, that I cannot put down. Books with...
Now and Next
We took our kids to the fireworks on July 4th. It was a perfectly cool summer night, and the kids were running and playing with friends...
