anger

Electronic communication is in its adolescence. Blogging is about twenty years old (the word “blog” was first coined...

marital conflict

Last month, as my oldest son and I watched the Chicago Blackhawks win game six of the Stanley...

marriage is a joke

My honeymoon was a disaster. We were two poor graduate students amazed at how cheap it was to...

when kids say no

The parent in me wants to squash every little insurrection as quickly as possible. But the psychologist in...

beautiful and afraid

Last month I was in an airport with a friend. He and his wife had booked seats together...

shame marriage

A Saturday night with the person you love can go south in a heartbeat, can’t it? Several weeks...

Sandy Hook

Republicans. And Democrats. Progressives. And Conservatives. Christians. And Jews. And Muslims and Hindus and atheists. NRA members. And...

belonging

Several years ago, a couple sat down in my office and told me they’d been fighting viciously since...