“This is the Erickson’s home, would you like to go inside?” We were looking for a restaurant following one of our collegial outings, a meaningful ritual within a meaningful friendship developed since meeting Dr. Jeffrey Zeig, following the Evolution of Psychotherapy conference in 2017. Our search for a COVID-safe, outdoor eating establishment had…(Read More)

I hadn’t slalom skied in almost 10 years.  Nor had I been out on a boat in the middle of the week, wind rushing through my hair, deep in conversation that was so stimulating, intimate, intelligent and REAL While laughing and singing to a mix of music that made everyone in my new EO…(Read More)

Labor Day was a good day to get married. The planner and lover-of-fun in me thought it would be a perfect way to give myself and my new husband a wedding anniversary that coincided with a four-day weekend each year. We’d have a built-in national holiday anniversary, that would allow…(Read More)

The world changed for me 19 years ago. While I know I am not alone in this sentiment, it is important for me to stop. And acknowledge. And remember every year on this day, a moment in our nation’s history when we collectively and traumatically were thrust out of the foundational naïveté we…(Read More)

I was so happy to see him, I leapt out of my car and into his arms. My COVID-free dear friend, similarly cautious and decidedly safe to greet with a warm spontaneous hug. A heartfelt, less-than-six-feet apart, old fashioned HUG. And then, it happened. In what was a mere instant of…(Read More)