In the Battleground Community Center, more than a thousand origami cranes hung in long streamers from the high ceilings. Candles flickered on the mantle above the stone fireplace, and the […]
The days are rapidly counting down to the total solar eclipse that will speed across the continental United States on Monday, August 21, and in my home, we are in […]
“Is something wrong with me? I’m afraid I’m not grieving the right way.” Such statements are common in my therapy practice, and every time I hear them, I feel pangs […]
It has been a Memorial Day weekend full of tear-glistening eyes and cracking voices here in Portland, where so many conversations since Friday evening have at some point turned to […]
I, for one, was hanging on for dear life. Every 20 yards or so, the hair-pin-turning, cliff-cut road dipped perilously into patches of sunken pavement, evidence of recurring landslides. To […]
There’s less than seven weeks to go until the presidential election, and with every passing day, the most divisive, racially charged and scandal-laden political campaign in modern history only gets uglier: louder […]
Amidst all the terrible headlines in the news recently, I have in the week following the Orlando massacre found myself pondering a recurring theme: the politics of division. As if […]
Trauma. It’s a word loaded with meanings both personal and political. Indeed, the very notion of “trauma” itself may be understood as a cultural experience that first emerged from political […]
Nothing seems to stir up feelings of grief quite like the winter holidays. As a psychotherapist, and also someone who has known plenty of loss within my own circle of […]
Walking the dog under the St. Johns Bridge one lovely evening a few weeks back, Marlene and I noticed a small patrol boat circling an area of the Willamette River […]