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The blog includes articles I have written over the last few years, as well as a weekly post where I share what’s on my mind, even if it’s an undeveloped idea that popped up when I was stirring a vat of cheese!

The Big Not So Easy: Loss, Body, Living Well

I remember the first time I went to New Orleans. It was probably 2000 or thereabouts, for a sex therapy conference. What a perfect venue for a crowd of sex therapists

Zipless: Narcissism, Dementia, Loss

Like most of us who were young women in the early 1970’s, I was swept up in the fervor, passion and perhaps euphoria of the Women’s Movement and the “Free Love Generation,”

Born Scared: Brain Development, Essential Threat, Connection

Often, I feel like a large block of cheddar. The day of mixing and stirring, heating and cooling, seems to be the big day in which it is made. But the real

Out and About: Attachment, Homophobia, Meaning

Caution: this blog contains references to sexual violence. I have always loved clothes: color, textiles, buttons, lace, all of it. For as long as I can remember, I always felt like I

Presente: Present, Past, Future

It is hard to believe we are about to observe the fifth anniversary of the barbaric murder of George Floyd on May 25th, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. I feel compelled to

A One Person Psychology: Experts, The “Truth,” Dualities

The internet as we know, is a wide world of “answers!” There is a definite answer, or three, or three thousand on any topic! It is dizzying and confusing for many who

Lather, Rinse Repeat! Hope, Freedom, Conditioning

I remember when the Pandemic began in March of 2020. London Breed, the then mayor of San Francisco, announced that we all had to “shelter in place” for two weeks. I had

Mass Distraction: Updating Files, Intergenerational Transmission, Breaking Chains

With some dismay I read a recent article that the US game giant Hasbro is unveiling its new and updated version of the familiar board game Monopoly. Although we only lived in

Tempest Tossed: Home, Rejection, Labor

The Nazi Holocaust is very much a part of my personal story. However, this does not in any way reflect my feelings about the current tragic and heartbreaking situation in the larger

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