Every now and then I will get a phone call from a person looking for a therapist and they will ask something like: “Are you…
To fulfill the requirements for my Ph.D. program I have to be “in residence” for one year. What that basically means is that I have…
Soon after my oldest daughter started kindergarten we were sitting at the table having a snack, talking about her day, looking through the work she…
There is something incredibly intimate and sweet about being on the floor with your child…getting down to their level and playing with them in their…
As I write we are on our way to the beach for our summer vacation, passing through Atlanta, specifically Marietta, and I am struck by…
I like positive people. Really, I do. I love how they push me to see the silver lining and keep me from slipping into the…
I’m starting a hard thing this week. It’s good, but it is still hard, too. And, there is no way around it. I have to…
My first job out of college, the first job that had anything to do with my major, was at Hiwassee Mental Health where I was…
At least a few and more often several times a day I beckon my group towards the front door with the goal of venturing outside. …
My middle daughter and I have a ritual that we do every time we leave each other, whether leaving each other is for bed, school,…
One of my students wrote me an ugly email the other day. This happens rarely, but it has happened. They get on their class website…
I attended graduate school at an enchanting little place called Fresno Pacific University in California. The school’s Mennonite roots reach their ideology of peace throughout…
Choosing gifts for my parents for birthdays, father’s/mother’s day and Christmases is never easy. Sometimes I find a gift that I think will show that…
I sometimes tell teenagers I work with that middle and high school is one big crash course in relationship skills, with the operative word there…
My oldest daughter, now seven, sang her first solo Sunday night at church. It was a short, little line with, as she pointed out to…