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  • Lehman Hall burns: 40th anniversary.

    posted: Oct. 07, 2018.

    It must be the 40th anniversary of the Lehman Hall Fire.   I don't remember the exact date, only that it was the Friday before midterms, Fall Semester, 1978.  I Read more
  • Simchat Torah for Who? And I mean that for both the English and Hebrew meaning of the word

    posted: Oct. 02, 2018.

    Well, I was invited to several Simchat Torah celebrations last night.  I work on Monday nights to after 10PM.  Add travel time and I won't be anywhere until 10:30 or Read more
  • Doubt

    posted: Sep. 28, 2018.

    At the end of the movie, "DOUBT", Meryl Streep wails, "I have doubt."  It is an anguished cry of the Mother Superior who has protected an abusive priest, sure that Read more
  • Beautiful day for a profound statement

    posted: Sep. 27, 2018.

    I am an adjunct professor at a CUNY college and I love being part-time.  I don't have to get swept up in the politics.  All I do is come in, Read more
  • Atonement?????

    posted: Sep. 15, 2018.

    This is the time of year when Jews reach out to their friends, associates, and family, asking that they be forgiven for any wrongdoing which they did, intentionally or unintentionally Read more
  • Freak shows for lack of insurance

    posted: Aug. 31, 2018.

    There are no longer any sideshows at the circus or at Coney Island. We are too refined, too evolved for such. But we watch freak shows nightly. They are inescapable. Read more
  • Sam Surprises (in photo above, my father is in the middle)

    posted: Aug. 30, 2018.

    As I mentioned in a previous post, my father was non-verbal, relying more on facial tics and glowering expressions to communicate.  Frequently, when frustrated, he strode out of the house. Read more
  • Hurray for our neck of the woods

    posted: Aug. 17, 2018.

    This city has a heck of a time selling itself, when it has so many splendid additions occurring daily. I was treated to a ride on the new NYC ferry service, Read more
  • More things never to discuss with your therapist

    posted: Aug. 15, 2018.

    Last January, my dead father visited me on his yahrzeit.  It was about 6:AM and I awokened suddenly to the sound of hissing.  At first, I thought perhaps I had Read more
  • Wombs are good

    posted: Aug. 15, 2018.

    Well, recently I posted that my mother has downsized from a room to a womb.  I regret that statement.  A womb is a place for potential to develop.  An embryo Read more
  • Follow the fellow who follows the dream

    posted: Aug. 12, 2018.

    The title of this post probably accurately diagnosis my problem:  I'm alone in this world.  I have never married.  Never successfully maintained a relationship with a romantic partner.  I meet Read more
  • On reading "Crime and Punishment" for the third time

    posted: Aug. 10, 2018.

    Every decade (or so) I find myself re-reading "Crime & Punishment."  The first time, I was 19.  I was an English major and it was required reading.  I was reading Read more
  • Not all hallucinations are psychotic

    posted: Aug. 08, 2018.

    Recently I wrote on how mental health professionals jump to psychosis when a patient claims to have experienced auditory, visual, gustatory, olfactory, or tactile hallucinations.   Since "everyone" knows these Read more
  • Who is crazy? Us--not the patients

    posted: Aug. 04, 2018.

    With Apologies to Ferenczi, who wondered whether it was the psychologist or the paiient.  After lo, these many a year, I no long wonder. I have always been curious about the Read more
  • Loss, unambiguous

    posted: Aug. 03, 2018.

    My mother and father married and moved into a one-bedroom in Flatbush.  Eight years, two children, and a job in NJ later, they moved into a four-bedroom quarter acre split Read more
  • Shrinks unhinged

    posted: Aug. 02, 2018.

    Earlier in this blog section I mentioned that ever since my first therapy encounter (usually with psychologists, but two with social workers), I would at some point be called, "arrogant Read more

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