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  • Ambivalent Christmas pasts

    posted: Jan 04, 2019.

    As a Jew growing up in red-necked, blue collar Unfunky Scummedrine, Christmas was all about loneliness and abandonment.  My parents did not celebrate Christmas in any fashion.  We did not Read more
  • The shock of the camera

    posted: Dec 23, 2018.

    Early this morning, I gave up on sleep.  I can only sleep for about two or three hours, then I'm up, then it's sleep for another hour, then I'm up. Read more
  • Puff the Magic Dragon

    posted: Dec 10, 2018.

    On Friday night I saw my significant other, Peter Yarrow, who performed a set at Emanu-El.  Oh, Peter Yarrow, my first love.  The first record I ever owned was Peter, Read more
  • Incontinent nostalgia

    posted: Dec 04, 2018.

    The other day I asked a girlfriend about her Thanksgiving weekend, where her daughter drove from Florida to New Orleans to pick up her own daughter, then drove the both Read more
  • The shame of our century

    posted: Nov 27, 2018.

    I have a chalazion on my left lower eyelid.  The word comes from the Yiddish, chazarei, for stupidity.  No, actually, it comes from the Greek word for "hailstone."  It is Read more
  • The terrible twos

    posted: Nov 25, 2018.

    I attended my parent's friend's 90th birthday party last night.  My parents and they were neighbors in their first apartment on Cortelyou Road.  Both women were pregnant with their first Read more
  • Sylvia the Senile Superheroine

    posted: Nov 18, 2018.

    My mother, the superheroine. Bet you never thought I'd write that. But her power is not a blessing, but a curse. She just says no. No to everything. Saying no Read more
  • Development over my Lifespan

    posted: Nov 16, 2018.

    I worry that in my old age I will become one of those NY women who eschew the subway.  These women always give some elaborate rationalization as to why they Read more
  • Mt. Doom

    posted: Nov 11, 2018.

    My mother is an invalid.  What a word.  In.....valid.  Not cogent.  Not having a sound basis.  Not my mother.  She is an anxious head in a body that is dysfunctioning. Read more
  • Psychology and the Blog

    posted: Nov 05, 2018.

    The Forensic Psychology conference I attended yesterday certainly made an impression on me.  In instructing psychologists how to go about setting up a consulting practice, the issue of social media Read more
  • Not thinking about the children in Pediatric Oncology. Still

    posted: Nov 04, 2018.

    I was at a forensic conference today and one of the presentations dealt with risk management.  The psychologist urged us to pay attention to patient dissatisfaction and complaints, as it Read more
  • $7k or strike!

    posted: Oct 23, 2018.

    Last week the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the union which represents CUNY staff, both full-time and part-time, held a meeting to discuss how to increase adjunct pay from the current Read more
  • How to kill a child psych program in ten easy steps.

    posted: Oct 14, 2018.

    1.  Starve the beast financially. Place them in an abandoned, windowless factory building hiding a notorious Mafia body dumping ground.  Don't bother to keep the building clean or decorate it Read more
  • 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

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