44 years ago on this day and at the same hour I am writing this, I was in my car driving to Harrisburg to meet my uncle to pick up a lime green Thunderbird. I never made it. When I was halfway there, I was in a terrible accident with an 18 wheel truck that […]
43 years later…
“No, this is not the end Nor is it the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the and of the beginning” Winston Churchill 1943 That was the inscription on my high school yearbook in 1964, several months after the assassination of JFK. And I wondered if that was the “end of the beginning” […]
In memoriam: A love letter to Geraldine Grossman my teacher, mentor and friend
“I first met Gerrie at the Family Institute of Philadelphia in 1972 when she was one of my first teachers. The Family Institute was still male dominated despite rumblings of something called ‘feminism.’ Nevertheless, she was highly respected, not to mention widely loved. Shortly after I started working with her, my wife developed cancer and […]
Love letter to my late ex wife on our 52nd anniversary
Reflections on what would have been my 52nd wedding anniversary
Thoughts after my best friends funeral
“I think about you every day and I don’t know why I haven’t called you.” I weep as I write these words because they were spoken by one of my oldest friends during our final conversation. Robbie and I became best friends during my senior year in college and my first year in graduate school. […]
“It Is Only with the Heart That One Can See Rightly. What Is Essential Is Invisible to the Eye”
It Is Only with the Heart That One Can See Rightly. What Is Essential Is Invisible to the Eye. Antoine De Saint Exupery The Little Prince COVID tells us to keep our distance from one another, that if we get too close we could become fatally ill. We keep our distance from each other […]
Book recommendation
“First We Make the Beast Beautiful: a New Story about Anxiety.” The Pennsylvania Psychological Association recently formed a book club and recommended this book to start with. I never joined the book club, but I did read the book and it was one of the best books I have ever read on anxiety. It’s personal, […]
Thursday, Sept 9th – Never Forget: shared grief on the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11th
Thursday, Sept 9th – Never Forget: Collective memory and shared grief on the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11th 20 years after the September 11th terrorist attacks, many who witnessed the horror that day can still recall images of the two burning towers, dust-covered crowds running to safety through the streets of lower Manhattan and first […]
Article from 2019 about my sex abuse in the Boy Scouts
Shame of the Boy Scouts: I was sexually abused by my troop leader | Perspective Dr. Daniel Gottlieb, an award-winning psychologist and former host of a popular WHYY radio show, writes about the shame he felt after being sexually abused by his Boy Scout troop leader when he was 12 years old. Dr. Dan Gottlieb […]
Saying goodbye to mother. Again
Dear Mom, In a few days, it will be the 23rd anniversary of your death. Although I was deeply saddened when it happened, I love the story that preceded it. You and dad were at a New Year’s Eve party at the Traymore hotel in Atlantic City along with many of your friends. Quite spontaneously […]
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