Being a second-generation survivor* or a 2G'er has been a journey. Long before I heard the term, I knew I was one. For as long as I can...

At dinner in a lovely restaurant, I remarked to friends, "soon there will be a civil war." One of the friends responded, "we are in a...

"Stupid," my sister and I yelled. The epithet was an expression of sibling rivalry. My mother or other adult shushed us. We behaved badly...

Recently, I read an article, "When is a Swastika Not a Swastika?" Immediately, anger raised its ugly spectre in my head. A cursory review...

Time to wear orange for ending gun violence, a sad commemoration every June, this year during the weekend of June 3-5. Socially minded...

Crying in Uvalde Texas For angels lost Cheering in Houston Texas For Guns Remembering 19 fourth graders With Cherubic LatinX faces...

Powerless, angry, frustrated, my reactions this morning caused by yet another shooting. Another paired with shooting is redudant. I...

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...