Me? Host Thanksgiving? You’ve got to be crazy! Stress and Sibling Position The importance of sibling position didn’t really come up in our family until the Thanksgiving my older sister had reasons she couldn’t host the big meal. She announced this alteration to life’s grand plan at a Sunday dinner in …
*****Bizarre video gift at the end of the post. A taste of Mexico City at dark. No sound and a lot of sidewalk shots, but hey, I did this by my techo-challenged self! Is Stealing Bad? Is Someone Who Steals a Bad Person? A Supplement to MysteryShrink and the Emotional …
Money Doesn’t Live Up to the Hype: Lessons from Eloise If the Book Is a Mistake, Put it Down! For quite a while I’ve wanted to do a series based on lessons I learned from a late friend, older than me by several decades, and wealthier than me by several …
Emotions: Living in the Now or ‘How to Visualize Whirled Peas’ Emotions: The Old Man, His Mop, and His Gift How do you ‘live in the now’ when life takes a dive suddenly and forever? And you’re a kid? The Ruiz Gallindo Hotel is nestled in Fortín de la Flores, …
MysteryShrink: Two Women and Living in the NOW The truth about psychology and psychologists: We long to be scientific—to prove our medications, our talk therapy works. We long to assist ourselves and other humans to find more joy and make more sense of their lives. We mostly fail on both …
Should You Care What Other People Think? Self Esteem vs. Self Centered. You might be surprised at the answer. The ways concern for “what other people think” influences our lives is not simple. Knee-jerk responses are not answers. Sometimes ‘caring what other people think’ is about more than a …
Life, Death, Self-esteem, and Writing Stories, Part 1 This article was written as a guest post on the blog of Literary Agent Helen Zimmermann who has Project Publish, a helpful blog for aspiring writers. The topic of my entry is the emotional side of writing—specifically on how your life can …
