Thoughts nag at me, like a tap on the shoulder. I am reading a dystopic novel which accounts for my feeling of dread and despair. But not...

Risking criticism, I return to Whoopi Goldberg and “The View.” I did not simply forgive or dismiss her comment about the Holocaust. If...

As I watch yet another video from Ukraine, I think about these horrible images reminiscent of the past. When will they ever learn? comes...

Yes, the victims of the war in Ukraine look like me, or I look like them. They are European and so is my background. Yes, I feel a...

Inflation getting you down? Shrieking at the gas station? Twenty dollars more spent at the market? Suggestions from Karen and Connie Levi...

Now our attention focuses on Ukraine. I have made it my responsibility to follow this conflict in the news, since the latest fighting...

Various media sources reported that some hours after International Holocaust Day, a suspect--without a home or some such euphemism--spray...

Just today, my sister said to her husband, "it's war, we have to eat the granola." An inside joke to be sure, my sister refers to past...

The new year began a day ago. I read an article about devices for measuring time--for example, grandfather clock, sundial, metronome,...

Put simply, I cannot get my mother out of me. Why was Mom frequently correct? Typical North American psychologists and social workers...

How funny and strange to see people who seem to have walked out of a different century. Today, I stopped for a woman at a crosswalk in a...

Her name was Emmy. I know little about her. She was my great aunt, the older sister of my grandfather Karl. I never met him either, since...

In July 2021, I wrote a blog about a conspiracy of silence among therapists of the 1970's through the 1980's. I questioned why my unusual...

The clock to save our planet is running down. Your time on the planet has always been limited. Now that we are older, we visualize an end...

After the Kabbalat Shabbat, the young woman bolstered her courage and stepped up to the rabbi, “The music inspires me more than the...

My friend, Susan, who died in 2017, much too young from cancer, would speak out. Recently, I watched a documentary about Julius Rosenwald...

On Thursday night, I noticed a striking picture on Twitter from @unequalscenes. The photo of a man riding a bike on a flooded street in...

Recently, I engaged in another frustrating interchange with a relative about the COVID-19 vaccine. She is polar opposite to me on a...

" "Conspiracy of Silence" is a term I have heard, though I am not sure of the where or who? Googling the phrase revealed that the words...

I read stories about refugees stranded in Mexico, attempting to enter the United States legally. These are women, children, and men...