How we imagined it: 2 shots, 2 weeks, and HELLO WORLD, HERE I COME! The Reality: …is a lot more complicated than that. The country is reopening, and depending who you ask, this is for better or for worse. As [...]
Last weekend, I did a little bit of summertime "spring cleaning". It was a task I'd been avoiding for awhile, but I decided it was time. In my tidying frenzy, I encountered The Drawer. You know the one I'm talking [...]
Someone recently called me a “professional conventional wisdom assassin,” which I really loved. It’s true – society feeds us all kinds of expectations about how pieces of our life are supposed to go. When our narrative doesn’t fit that, it [...]
Mallory came to see me about two years ago, and she felt – in a word – stuck. She had been in what she called a “dead-end relationship” with her girlfriend for five years. She had been at her paralegal [...]
Even the healthiest, most functional person can look dysfunctional in an extreme situation. This sentiment, paraphrased from one of my graduate school text books, is something I think about a lot. It’s true of individuals, but it’s also true of [...]
“You’re in the gap,” observed my supervisor, calmly commenting on the difficulties I had expressed about being in a period of transition. For those of you who don’t know, I’m in the process of relocating from the Boston area to [...]