Losing Everything
Long ago when Hurricane Katrina did the unthinkable by flooding much of New Orleans, I couldn’t imagine the psychological trauma of losing your home, your neighborhood, your town, your nearby … Continue reading
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Erasing the Other
In the 1870’s, a man named Richard Pratt decided to use his Army training and experience (setting up a prison program) to design American schools for indigenous youth who were … Continue reading
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Hugging the Child Within
Biographies of celebrities are often tales of emotional abuse. In school, I despaired that I could never be a famous author because I hadn’t suffered enough. I was only partially … Continue reading
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The Spring of Us
One of the best parts of spring is the message of hope—freedom, resurrection, rebirth. The temperatures rise and dreary brown earth hosts green shoots. Every year I listen with anticipation … Continue reading
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Rubber Ball Spirit: The Ability to Bounce Back
How quickly do you recover your good humor after a shock or depression? The capacity to bounce back is called resilience, and it can mean the difference between a joyful … Continue reading
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If You Feel Like a Ruin, Do You Preserve or Renovate?
We all ultimately face a day when we look in the mirror and the person looking back is oddly different—older. Me? Older? What is this evil magic? And then we … Continue reading
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Change, Change, Change
The one certainty we have going into a new year is that things will change. What “things?” We don’t know. That’s the mystery. Some of us have specific goals to … Continue reading
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What I Learned from the People of Belize
In my mind, a vacation that consists of tramping from site to site with a bunch of people just like me isn’t worth the effort and cost of a trip … Continue reading
