First posted May 20, 2015. When I first returned to Hawaii this year, I was here alone for two weeks. Roger, the caretaker, was here, of course, and he is wonderful and helpful if I really need something and he works and has his own busy life. So, anything I needed to do, I needed to do myself. Since my living and sleeping space had been cleaned by a wonderful friend, I did not have to face that ordeal. It seemed that my only task (other than my usual work!) was to do the foo

First posted April 23, 2015. Recently, I have had the occasion to relearn some of my early learnings about addiction. I first came face-to-face with the issue of alcoholism/addiction when I was sharing a home with a group of women and our children back in the 1970’s. I was a practicing psychotherapist and had had a whole three hours on addiction so, like others at that time, assumed I knew something about addiction. As our household became more and more dysfunctional, I tried

First posted February 13, 2015. just finished writing a holiday newsletter for persons not in the training who sent me holiday greetings and keep in touch. I always appreciate the personal notes written in them and usually reply in a personal way. This year, there were so many and I have so many irons in the fire, that I decided to write a holiday letter summing up the year. All in all, the whole thing was a very powerful process for me and I realized that there is good reaso