On my mind

The blog includes articles I have written over the last few years, as well as a weekly post where I share what’s on my mind, even if it’s an undeveloped idea that popped up when I was stirring a vat of cheese!

“Sociostasis”: Words, Husbands, Attachment

I do love words. I asked my husband, does everyone read books with a massive dictionary at their elbow like I do? I am fairly literate, but I don’t want an interesting

Assisted Living: Teachers, Learning to Whisper, Recovery

It is always my intention to be reliable and consistent, so please receive my sincerest apology and regret for being late with this week’s blog. I think we should all have a

Hope And Grit: Crashing, Loss, “The FDA Failed Us!”

Coming home from Boston, I crashed into a colossal writer’s block. I had been on such a high for a week. A lifelong introvert, I had been social and interactive the whole

Sshhhhhh… Neglect, Regulation, Neglect Informing Sex Therapy

June is Pride Month, I think around the world. In San Francisco where I live, the skies are more than ever splashed with the color of waving rainbow flags. I love those

Mother’s Day: Hollandaise, George Floyd, Prairie Voles

Hollandaise and Mimosas My mind has been swimming with so many thoughts, and so much inspiration since I returned from Boston. I can’t honestly say I have really returned. I wish I

That’s All She Wrote: Loss, Magic, Found

When I was working my way through graduate school, my last waiter job was in a cute little restaurant near Berkeley Repertory Theater. The chef Johnny, unlike so many chefs, was good-humored,

A Woman of Valor: Janina, Co-Regulation, Transmission

“I didn’t marry you for your cooking!” our dad would routinely say to Mom, only partly in jest. But there was no question about his admiration and regard for her in perhaps

Therapeutic What? ET, Attachment Trauma, Care

What a strange and wacky concept, finding and hiring a stranger with certain credentials, telling them everything about myself, and paying them huge amounts of money to sit and listen to me.

Intention: Mindfulness, Practice, Closure

I’ve never been much for the New Year’s resolution thing. It seems for most people to consist of grand declarations and promises of way too many changes, usually about losing weight, lasts

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