The air is warm, the lawns are green and the season of picnics is upon us. But, can a reformed fat guy still shout a resounding “Huzzah!” and remain healthy? I say yes. By punching up flavor and pumping up tasty food quantity and getting the most bang for your calorie, you can have [Continue]
“True balance—dynamic, powerful balance—is sustained by determined and diligent effort to elevate the quality of our lives no matter where our time is being spent.” - Pr. Dana Arakawa, MAPP For the last 13 months I’ve stepped on the same scale every week, at least once. Last Monday was the first time that I was [Continue]
“Direction is more important than speed. We are so busy looking at our speedometers that we forget the milestone.” -Anonymous I do a lot of work with milestones in therapy. They’re great conceptually because they’re heavy, concrete objects to which we can tie all sorts of life experience. Even ephemeral changes in thinking or [Continue]
“In a democracy that all too often bemoans unfairness in injustice, the Depravity Scale’s goal of distinguishing the worst of crimes, must…incorporate…current diagnostic understandings, the clinical experience of evil from a range of forensic sciences beyond psychiatry, and attempts to define evil by law.” -Dr. Michael Welner, MD I don’t need to tell you what [Continue]
“ is not as common or as practiced as I once believed…we need weapons in the war against disconnection and misinterpretation.” -Me, Fantasy Contact and Real Communication (2011) The befuddled ranting of a Philadelphia Court Judge (in front of me and my patient) inspired the article quoted above. Today I am inspired by much more [Continue]
“ the ability to find meaning in imagery. It involves a set of skills ranging from simple identification (naming what one sees) to complex interpretation on contextual, metaphoric and philosophical levels…Objective understanding is the premise of much of this literacy, but subjective and affective aspects of knowing are equally important.” -Philip Yenawine, [Continue]
“Ya gotta love wat’cha eat!” -Andi, My Weight Watchers Leader I’ve been contacted by a kind and encouraging number of you who’ve said things that fall into two main categories: 1) “You’re an inspiration to me!” 2) “Alright, buddy. Make with the recipes already.” To those of you in category one, I say, “Thank [Continue]
Books, DVDs, Magazines, Comic Books, Kinck-nacks, Tchotchkys, dust-catchers, #@%# clutter everywhere and why can’t I find a single flat surface to put down this coffee mug?! Does this sound like something that runs through your brain when entering your “office,” “den” or your whole house? Don’t worry; you are simply part of the “great [Continue]
“‘Cause I was thinkin’, it really don’t matter if I lose this fight. It really don’t matter if this guy opens my head, either.” -Rocky Balboa, Rocky It’s 4:45AM; the swish-swish of snow pants awakens the sleeping cat, curled into a warm circle of fur. Jealousy rises, but the running shoes go on. It’s 5AM. [Continue]
“To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.” -Thomas Campbell Back in April, as a way to put my small, small words behind a project (and a Kickstarter) that I dearly believe in, I interviewed Jessica Vale about her time in Liberia working on the documentary Small Small Thing, which [Continue]
