“She’s suffering from depression,” my mother tells me carefully. We’re sitting across from each other and she’s brewing the coffee. I settle for a cup of black tea and nod absentmindedly.
We live in a world that, in part thanks to technology, is slowly losing the ability for having conversations that matter and therefore changing how we are in relationships with ourselves, with others, and within our communities.
Last updated: April 8th, 2019Yesterday we went out with friends that we haven’t seen for a long time. The night...
Relationship of Aging: Evolutions of the Parent/Child Relationship
Watching parents age is tough. Watching your divorced and still single parents age is heartbreaking. Not once did it ever cross my mind when I was a child what it would be like for Mom and Dad as they aged. Needing to think about it seemed such a long time away
Last updated: April 3rd, 2019If you’re reading this, you probably don’t even think twice about your mobile phone anymore. You...
Last updated: April 3rd, 2019It’s game time for people who care about social justice issues. For most of the year...
Last updated: April 2nd, 2019One of the four principles Don Miguel Ruiz writes about is “Never Assume, always ask.” In my...
Last updated: April 2nd, 2019If you were a rock, improving your ability to communicate would not be in your list...
Last updated: April 2nd, 2019In the last couple of weeks I participated in several communication training seminars. As a trainer I...
Last updated: April 2nd, 2019Pratyahara and pencils populate my thoughts today. Back to school, I can smell the freshly sharpened...
RESONANCE: When we tune in to nature and other human beings, we create an energy field of understanding and empathy
I love the word Resonance. Resonance comes from the Latin verb ‘resonare’, meaning to ‘return to sound’. It means to sound and resound, as in an echo. Another type of resonance is called sympathetic resonance.
Last updated: April 1st, 2019“Compassion is a verb.” – Thich Nhat Hanh I teach writing. My community college students cannot...
HOLDING ALICE: The silent communication of touch
Many years ago, I had a friend named Tom. He and I used to just hang out and talk. It was the 60s before the age of smartphones, Wi-Fi and social media, before Whatsapp, WeChat, Facebook, Line
THE POWER OF PRESENCE: The antisocial social media
I often wonder if social media is the solution for a generation obsessed with multitaskingor a destructive catalyst in the decline of human interaction. I’m leaning more towards the latter. Don’t get me wrong, I have a lot of praise for sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
BARELY THERE: Living naturally without clothes
My family and my very close friends well know my decades-long relationship to clothes—I am not a comfortable carrier of textiles. The moment my feet enter my door, the clothes disappear. I am comfortable in my skin, wrinkles, imperfections and all.
Last updated: March 27th, 2019Is there a way to engage in meaningful conversation about public life—politics, culture, economics, arts, whatever—online...
Last updated: March 25th, 2019September 20, 2013 marked the release date of the newest models of the iPhone: the 5S...
Last updated: March 25th, 2019It’s early morning in Robinsons department store in Bangkok. Ten o’clock, early? Well, yes, in a...
Last updated: March 25th, 2019There’s a kid at the end of the sidewalk. She’s gyrating to the beat emanating from...
Last updated: March 24th, 2019“As we are… as we are… as we are” I muttered non-stop as I travelled back...
Last updated: March 19th, 2019It’s funny that as technology has advanced and we have so many means to communicate, we...
Last updated: March 19th, 2019So my cute little girl has morphed into a sarcastic teen who rolls her eyes and...
Last updated: March 17th, 2019“I can’t get your fax through to Zambia,” Jenny wailed. Jenny was the “fax and post...
Last updated: March 17th, 2019“You have to stop defining yourself as the girl with depression or the girl with anxiety,...