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“Logic will get you from A to B.  Imagination will take you anywhere.” – Albert Einstein BILL’S BIG BOOK  (if you wish, you can put your own name on it instead) Following these few words of introduction and instruction, there are 437 blank pages.  The instructions are simple.  Open it to any page, or choose […]

For some 45 years I’ve been coaching men and women how to communicate with each other – and learning a lot myself in the process as well. Perhaps a better title for this article would be How and why to listen to women. Or perhaps more directly, Listen to Women. First let me say this

Thursday, February 24, 2022 – We all got the news, Russia had just invaded Ukraine. It seemed like weeks, it had been like a cat and mouse game – will he or won’t he (Mr. Putin) – invade his neighbor? More and more Russian troops were amassing at the border.“Would he really?”  Diplomatic, political, and

As a psychotherapist, I’m generally not an advice giver. Rather my work is to help my client come to his or her own best choices, or to navigate life in a manner that their own best choices can emerge. Underlying this are three logical assumptions:1)  There exist among many choices available, some that could be

One of the beliefs underlying my client work (and hopefully the rest of my life as well) is that there are more choices available than we are (usually) aware of. Often many more choices. One common example is the utilization of “brainstorming” where on purpose we (as an individual or a group) make a list

America’s epidemic of school shootings has come to Michigan. A week ago, on Tuesday November 30, a 15 year old student at Oxford High School in nearby Oxford, Michigan, went on a shooting rampage killing four of his fellow classmates, and injuring numerous others. The details, as they continue to emerge, have been well broadcast

The beginning of this has been a long fascination with the various and totally diverse meanings of the word Mean. 1) It can be a descriptive adjective: ‘That dog looks really ‘mean’, denoting a characteristic of cruelty, or cruel behavior. A deeper meaning could be that one should keep a distance from that dog, for

I remember concluding my previous Newsletter with an open question about the meaning of those previous weeks’ Florida vacation/hospitalization and heart emergency. (It’s perhaps a therapist thing to inquire about the particular meaning of things.) And I recall leaving the question open for the time – not being in any hurry to rush into such

Part A – Planning my Florida Vacation For some years (before Covid) I’d plan a Winter vacation itinerary that would include a number of visits to an established collection of Florida friends, most with available guest rooms, etc. The highlight of each visit was our usual brand of quality conversation. Now with Covid somewhat tamed

For me, fortunately, it was almost too easy. For those many months…I could hide in my house, and also in my office just a half mile away.Nobody close to me died of “the Covid.”I got vaccinated four and five months ago without any problems.My particular clientele were not the ones who suffered the most (at