“Okay,” She said, her blue eyes offsetting her light hair, “What I want to do is try some distancing. I want to take you back there in that room, where you are . . .” she paused delicately, “In that situation. And remember last time where you flew above and fast-forwarded away, farther and farther?” “Yep.” “I want you to do that. Float away. And this time, tell me how you feel.” She flipped the EMDR machine on and I [...]
As a brief housekeeping matter, I’ve learned a great deal about building websites since I last spoke to you. I learned, for example, that Sitebuilder and WordPress don’t play well together. I could not migrate my old blog to the new site. So while I designed a beautiful site, with lots of pretty graphics, I could not bring three hundred pages of blog entries with me, and that was too high of a price to pay. After all, I’m still [...]
In light of something rather unpleasant going down in my professional life, I wrote the following last night on my FB Page: I’m thinking tonight about integrity, which is telling the truth to yourself, and honesty, or telling the truth to other people. When a person has both qualities, and a willingness to do their best in all their endeavors, you’ve got the sort of person we all like to call “a keeper.” I strive to be that sort of [...]
Stephanie Saye is one of my friends. She’s also the author of Little 15, which tells the story of a high school girl who has an affair with her basketball coach. Little 15 raises a number of provocative issues, like: whose fault is it anyway? What sort of moral culpability, if any, does the teenager bear? What kind of girl gets involved with a married man? What kind of married man violates all moral and legal precepts by sleeping with [...]