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PsychoanalysisIs This A Coincidence?

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • March 9, 2022
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Is this a coincidence? On Saturday, as you are reading this, I will be meeting Sullivan, my first…
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PsychoanalysisConfronting limitations & imperfections

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • February 4, 2022
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I’m still thinking about endings. This week I am obsessed with going through the twelve chapters of my…
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AgingWhen You Get To The End

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • January 21, 2022
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Endings tend to be difficult for me so it’s no surprise that the last chapter of my second…
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FeelingsRevisiting the Taj Mahal

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • December 24, 2021
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My favorite snow globe, one featuring the iconic Taj Mahal, may be difficult for you to see in…
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AgingWhat do Great-Grandmothers Do?

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • October 22, 2021
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I can’t speak for every great-grandmother, but I can tell you what I have been thinking about and…
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Aging67 or 76? Older or Wiser?

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • October 15, 2021
  • 765 views
Celebrating the one-year anniversary of my debut memoir and my 76th birthday, one which I kept writing down…
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AgingFor July 17

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • July 19, 2021
  • 618 views
One of the pleasures I’ve added to my life this COVID year was spending an hour, once a…
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AgingWhat Is A Good Life?

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • June 11, 2021
  • 742 views
Question for this week: What makes a good life? As most of you know, I was a patient…
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AgingWhat Are You Aware of?

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • December 25, 2020
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My experience of Freudian psychoanalysis terminated 55 days ago. At times the absence is a delightful presence while…
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AgingThinking of Certain Arrangements – #99

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • August 23, 2019
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Since I’m spending all my spare moments revising memoir where I’m trying to describe my experience of Freudian…
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