At that time, our mothers were alive, our hair was brown, and we liked to stay up past midnight.
I do it for the relationships. I like to spend my time with people who are trying to make the world a fairer, kinder place. I’ve been in groups like this since college, and they have made me happy.
I tell them, Americans are very serious about two things—time and money.
Just as Sylvia rated her pain, so can we rate our own stress on a ten point scale. When we first start doing all our stressors are eleven, but over time we learn that real tens are rare occurrences. M...
Most discussions about memory in older people concern deterioration and loss, but such discussions miss an important phenomenon. Our minds become less cluttered and more concerned with essentials. We...
Most refugees end up on welfare. In feet, all of the refugees I know do 3-D work—difficult, dirty, and dangerous.
One of the great gifts of our later years is the possibility of authenticity, or what Margaret Fuller called the radiant sovereign self, which comes from growing out of fears into wholeness.
Our Western mental health system is dependent on verbal expressiveness, self-disclosure, and a belief in individualism. It splits the personal and the professional, the sacred and profane, and the min...
The INS is incredibly understaffed. For the last few years Congress has funded enforcement but hasn't funded routine service and processing of documents. A recent newspaper article reported that of th...
With each new stage of life, we outgrow the strategies that worked for us at an earlier stage. We find ourselves in an environment that pelts us with more challenges than our current self can manage....
Everything interesting happens at borders.
Inadequate. Most do not help students with what they need most—a sense of meaning regarding their sexuality, ways to make sense of all the messages, and guidelines on decent behavior in sexual relatio...
Toward our seventies, our bones, shape, vision, sense of smell and taste, and even our teeth change. We react differently to medications. We don’t tolerate the cold as well. As our skin thins, we brui...
As a therapist, I tried to help clients create better stories. I asked questions such as, When have you been courageous or stronger than you thought you could be? What would your life look like if you...
As we go about our troubled and sometimes frenzied lives, in this time of the Great Acceleration, we have close at hand ways we can move out of the time zone of our current century and into a transcen...
Coalition members learned to make our points via stories. It is impossible to argue with a story that simply reflects the experience of the storyteller. People like stories and remember them. They cre...
Education is teaching children to find pleasure in the right things.
For newcomers from slow cultures, time is a river that flows through their lives. They have no abstract sense of time. Refugees who have been on sun, seasonal, or Circadian-rhythm time find the change...
In Legacies, Portes and Rumbaut report that most immigrants move into the middle-class mainstream in one or two generations. That is the good news. The bad news is that if they don't make it quickly i...
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