Playdate
Donald Winnicott, a psychoanalyst and pediatrician, writes about “potential space.” Sometimes he uses the label “play space”. I…
Reading & Connection
I recently received pictures taken at preschool of my toddler great-grandson. His mother, my granddaughter, sent several to…
Weak Constitution?
Mom worried about me. Granted she had reasons for her concerns – I was often ill as a…
I Can’t Say That!
The other day I listened to Glennon Doyle having a conversation with Ross Gay. For those of you…
Feet
My assignment for The Body Remembers class this week: write five hundred words about an experience of bodily…
Longing……………
Gretchen Rubin’s new book Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head…
Class Reunions & Freud
Freud wrote that humans have an unconscious need to repeat early trauma. He named this tendency the repetition…
Attention!
5.27.2023 Attention! If you were to see the bookshelf by my desk, you might think I’m obsessed with…
What Are Your Expectation?
5.20.2023 I pushed the contact number on my cell phone to reach the office of one of the…
A Day in the Life of This Reader
I finished Book I of My Struggle – all 441 pages. This is the first of Karl Ove…