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Crisis of confidence
I’ve known since I was nine years old – not coincidentally the same age I started therapy – that I wanted to make people feel better, to make people smile. I remember being a kid and thinking I wanted to make the whole world laugh, make everyone in it feel better. But I actually had […]
Power of Involved Fathers Workshop
Despite the worst Nor’easter to hit these parts in decades, I had my workshop on Sunday, entitled, The Power of Involved Fathers. I had mentioned that I had really struggled in preparing for it, but by the time Sunday morning came, I was ready and excited.
Unfortunately, the weather did deter people from coming, but we […]
To the man at Friendly’s reading the newspaper
Dear Sir,
I hadn’t checked the news before I took my Okapis to Friendly’s on Saturday morning for breakfast so it is very possible there was something so important going on in the world that it was worth ignoring your family. But, frankly, I can’t quite imagine what it would be. Your wife and daughter seemed […]
I saw Rocky this weekend and this is what I realized
There is so much, so many emotions pulsing, coursing, driving through me, swirling in my stomach, flooding my eyes, accelerating my heart. My post last week about how I feel about my job triggered some interesting responses, but it also allowed me to get past that and go deeper. It is not just about my […]
From venting to synergy in 20 minutes
A couple of days ago on the train I bumped into a friend of mine. Ironically, this friend of mine, a fellow father, and I only know each other because two years earlier, his wife and I had met taking the same train. She and I had bonded over our children having birthdays in the […]
Not being true to myself
Have you ever had the feeling that everything is going pretty well, yet you don’t feel happy, you don’t feel good? I’m riddle with that feeling this morning, invading my soul, ripping up my stomach, lowering a cloud over my eyes, enshrouding me in gloom. What could possibly be so bad in my life to […]


