Dreams as Teachers

August 4, 2013

Sometimes our dreams about our children don’t quite fit into any of the standard or most common categories such as water and drowning, falling and flying, bad guys and kidnappers, etc. Thus this category is comprised of dreams that struck me as best conceptualized as the unconscious of the dreamer functioning as guide or teacher. […]

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Our Children, Our Dreams: The Healing Wisdom in Bad Dreams About Our Children

August 4, 2013

Greetings.  To subscribers of this blog I apologize for the several posts in a row you are about to receive.  Just delete and do not be alarmed that I am about to inundate you with torrents of daily posts.  Neither you or I have the time or energy for that :) A while back I […]

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Steal This Book

July 15, 2013

Well, you don’t have to steal it exactly, as it’s free this week if you have an inclination to read it on your Kindle. I hope you’re all having a great summer.  I’m trying to follow my own advice and enjoy life, hang with my kids when they’ll have me and follow Katrina Kenison’s counsel […]

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What To Expect…

June 14, 2013

Hi All.  I’m a guest blogger today at What To Expect, so please visit me there.  I’m talking about loneliness in parenting and hope that our shared social community might throw a little love in the direction of increased consciousness for the isolation so many mothers (and some fathers) face in the journey of parenting. […]

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Ant & Fox do the Dog & Pony

May 10, 2013

It had been the best and worst of times from conception through developmental readiness for preschool, and now Nell and Sam had a screaming child in the carseat of the Volvo as they sat in stagnant traffic on Lincoln.  In Brett Ellis’ day people were afraid to merge, but now they were back to the […]

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Farewell Roger Ebert

April 4, 2013

It was Christmas Eve of 1977 and the phone rang many times, but I didn’t hang up.  I was calling the Chicago Sun Times and I’d asked to speak to Roger Ebert and had been connected to some phone that I pictured ringing in a classic newsroom.  And then a voice. In the background a […]

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Love That Makes Us Crawl

March 13, 2013

The blogosphere is a sort of collective water-cooler where we come out of our cubicles for a minute and talk about whatever.  So, did you see the most recent episode of Girls? “On All Fours” made me feel sick.  It took me a night of dreaming to realize a little more.  Freud, who was at […]

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Wolf Pascoe’s “Breathing For Two”

February 23, 2013

My first panic attack struck when I was fifteen.  It was March and my father had taken my brother and I out of school to accompany him on a business trip with my mom to London.  No school, The Grosvenor House, going with just my brother to the newly opened Hard Rock Café, a driver […]

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Remains of the Night

February 14, 2013

Happy Valentine’s Day, 2013. Today I feel loathe to offer opinion, yet am struck by several observations around the theme of ash. In Dresden there are clashes between those who commemorate the firebombing of that city during WWII in a context of the dark forces that provoked the annihilation in the first place and those […]

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May I recommend a Book?

January 19, 2013

Books are like people, they need friends, they need to be loved, and by loved I mean understood, interacted with, allowed to inspire and to move and to raise questions.  Books are not at all the same as authors any more than children are the same as parents; books are related to authors, they come […]

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