First posted April 13, 2017. Understanding Washington, D.C. For every “drunk” there are several “trained” Al-Anon’s. Al-Anon’s are...

First posted April 10, 2017 Returning to “The Land of the Free – The Home of the Brave” I find it distressing, embarrassing, and painful...

First posted May 4, 2017. Fear and Anger As we have looked at the characteristics of addiction as we have seen them played out in...

First posted April 27, 2017. Self-Centeredness In relation to the disease process of addiction, self-centeredness is seen as one of its...

First posted April 1, 2017. Last night, I watched what was going on in Washington D.C. in horror and disbelief. Those feelings have not...

First posted March 20, 2017. Separation of Church and State does not mean the separation of the moral/spiritual from the government. The...

First posted December 15, 2016 December 15, 2016 To: President Obama From: Anne Wilson Schaef, Ph.D. Topic: Free Leonard Peltier By now,...

First posted December 5, 2016 The people did not elect a king or a czar! Or did they? The last time I was in Russia, I took a boat trip...

First posted December 1, 2016. I have never been a big fan of the “what if’s” and “if only’s.” Yet, there is one “what if” that has...

First posted November 7, 2016. Do we really want change? The word change is bandied about a great deal these days. Yet, what do we mean...

First posted November 3, 2016. In Frankfurt, Germany at the airport Sheraton Hotel while I was overnighting there for an early morning...

First posted October 31, 2016. I never thought I would be saying those words. And yet, if your rude, obnoxious, abusive, cavalier...

First posted October 27, 2016. There has been some attempt lately by Donald Trump’s son and others to excuse being disrespectful and...

First posted October 24, 2016. When I was active in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s (my family was always active in civil...

First posted October 13, 2016 This country was founded on radical ideas and it is conservative to support them. I have always thought of...

First published October 10, 2016. “Your Cheatin’ Heart Will Tell on You” This old country-western song is being sung to Donald Trump by...

First posted September 26, 2016 Recently, on several occasions, I have found myself coming to tears and something even deeper than tears in the strangest situations. These situations always seem to have something to do with these United States of America and what they were meant to be. You see, down deep I am a conservative and a progressive. I am a conservative because I so passionately believe in what this country is meant to be that I am brought to tears when we are remind

First posted on September 22, 2016. I understand Hillary. I understand her because I am a woman who has listened to the intimate stories of thousands of women all over the world. I understand her because I am almost fifteen years her senior and have lived through the same social, political and cultural phases of our society with a little more of a perspective on the changes that were occurring during those years of great change for the women of this culture and this planet. I

First posted September 19, 2016. Hillary needs to remember that a President serves all the people – even the “Deplorables.” Both Hillary and Trump are “confused” by the rhetoric, insanity, hurt and anger in this country. Anything we feed grows and we have been “feeding” the wrong impulses. One of the principles on which this country was built was that everyone – every group – has a littlie piece of the truth and we need all those pieces to be able to glimpse the whole. This w

First posted December 13, 2014. Living out in the country as we do, we have fallen into the habit of keeping in touch with the world by...