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Trump, Kohut, and the Pathology of Grandiosity Every morning Lynda and I take our three Whippets for a walk around the block. The older two, Paddy (age 9) and Izzy (age 4) stroll alongside us, taking in the morning sunshine, a sniff here, a poop and a pee before arriving back at our front door. […]
My wife Lynda and I both enjoy writing poetry. Before I retired I traveled a great deal, sometimes away for weeks at a time. Some evenings we would share partially finished work and invite the other to expand on, revise, or take the piece in an entirely new direction. It has been a while since […]
I have just finished the book A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst. The story is largely about Maurice and Maralyn Bailey’s failed voyage from the UK to New Zealand that became a brief media sensation in the early 1970s. As a young couple, Maurice and Maralyn decide they are bored with their tedious lives […]
With each move my wife and I have made over the past many decades (and there have been many), we attend to the rituals of sorting through what we should keep and what can be disposed of or passed along to children. My wife refers to these cleaning rituals as Swedish Death Cleaning so when […]
Go to Your Room… and grow up
I was born in 1951, six short years but a lifetime and then some after the end of the Second World War. As a child, the war seemed very distant to me yet shaped in rather dramatic fashion so much of my life in those early years. It is something of a curiosity to me […]