I will never forget how outraged one of my former college students was when I intimated that she might have played a critical role in her own cancer.  I back-pedaled during this, in-class, confrontation — as I certainly didn’t want to be the catalyst of a relapse – but I do have to stand by […]

Just like President Obama – I was figuring on a 6-game series between the Lakers and the Magic – I thought that Jack wanted one more Laker appearance before the season ended.  I certainly don’t know for sure – but I figured one additional game would pad the league coffers by about $200,000,000.00 (unless advertising

It’s getting so you can’t pray anymore – without the possibility of being killed in church.  Actually, I guess you’d have to be a doctor performing abortions to worry about this.  These pro-Lifers (a.k.a. anti abortionists) are really a-bunch-of-sanctimonious hypocrites.  Let’s send them all to war – better yet, let’s have the pro-Lifers work exclusively

When young Ron Howard was Andy Griffith’s son in Mayberry – I had a sense that all was right in the world.  Even if Don Knotts upset the apple cart every-now-and-then – we all knew that things would smooth out just fine.  And as Richie Cunningham – Ron Howard again brought a sense of apple

As anyone reads me knows, I didn’t vote this past Tuesday.  I’m done with voting – the Bushies ruined voting for me!  And I really don’t care if people lose their jobs in California, or, can’t get jobs.  For all I know, some dickhead consortium will manage to cut me out of my retirement when

Before I can explain poor Graham’s consternation in the dramatic change he saw in me – I have to provide a little background to the circumstances he initially met me in… Graham met me in my sophomore and junior years in college when I was probably as buff as I’ve ever been, and, sporting my

It was sometime in early 1985 that I picked Graham up from LAX.  I hadn’t seen him since the Summer of 1978 – when I worked as a lifeguard at Humewood Beach in Port Elizabeth, South Africa (my home away from home).  I had met Graham the year before – when I worked as a

On May 1, 2009 – HG finally brought over that absinthe he was telling me about (and that I was dying to try) – suffice to say, I believe I had too much of the stuff; though it had a wonderful anaesthetizing quality – I felt like I was in a cocoon – like I

I have often tried to calculate how many thousands-of-hours I have spent talking with people as a therapist.  I would venture to say some 13,000.  Now, I’ve met many-a-therapist who has logged many tens-of-thousands more,  but when I couple these psychotherapy hours with the tens-of-thousands of hours that I have spent teaching – I feel

It wasn’t too long ago that my Father and I had that “Who’s the Top Dog?” thang going for a hot minute —  when I finally opened up with both barrels and asked him to give me the name of anyone (save ol’ Dr. Broderick) – who had accomplished more than I had in their