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!

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

Tengo: Imaginary Friends, Loss, Time

I hate it when I don’t follow my own advice, and even more, I hate admitting it. Way back when we got the Trump government in 2016, it seemed as if everyone

Miracles: Slam Dunk, Fire, Serendipity

Many people don’t know that Chanukah is a holiday about miracles. Ironically, at least in the US, the winter holiday season tends to be an extra hard or outright miserable time for

The Body in Pain: Interoception, Pain, Language

This week’s blog is all about pain, inspired by The Master Series: Pain Edition, coming soon in February. Use my code RC20 to get 20% off your tickets. When we were growing

Breaking Chains: Roquefort, Redlining, Reparation

For better or worse, we are all too aware that nature’s design is to exist, survive and persist into the future by proliferating one’s likeness and perhaps broadcasting that. It is as

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