Living in a different place helped. I had that figured out by the time I went to school. I was one of those kids who always seemed to be underfoot at my friend’s houses. I hated going home. Home was a dangerous, unstable place full of yelling, hate and hitting…

Probably not for the reasons you might think, but my recent KDrama habit has an unintended consequence. I just finished watching “The Good Bad Mother,” a KDrama series that mixed family history, an unresolved murder case, and a love story into one, seamless narrative with dashes of comedy mixed in…

For the last three years, since my mother died, I’ve been in therapy. Being asked to examine your life and report on your observations once a week cannot help but drive a person deep into memories from every era of life. All too often, the memories that emerge as something…

Seventy years ago, our little town in New England was laid waste by a tremendous flood. Fifty-three years before that, in 1927, the area experienced a similar devastating flood. In response to these two events the Army Corps of Engineers designed and built flood chutes in vulnerable communities around Massachusetts. …

With two dozen plus subscriptions and password protected accounts, a rental house to manage with six streaming TVs that must all be popped in and out of guest mode on a regular basis and the constant struggle to stay anonymous enough that I am not totally creeped out and nauseated…

Watching the public take in the story of Harry and Meghan’s ordeal in NYC on May 16th has been equal parts illuminating and triggering for me. As a teenager, walking to and from school, I was routinely threatened by a crowd of teenaged girls. It got so scary that I…

If you’ve watched Michael Cohen in the news, even if you’ve only seen pictures of Cohen coming and going from the court room, you’ve seen Lanny Davis. And if you’ve seen Lanny Davis, you know, in your heart, Michael Cohen is sincere, you know, things in New York at least…

Looks like FOX news might be headed for the media equivalent of a barrier reef in April. Every day there’s more damning information released via court filings. The anchors knew they were lying about election fraud, Murdoch knew they were lying. They had every opportunity to tell their viewers the…

There’s no going back, even when you’ve gone back. I know that doesn’t make sense. I’m trying to make sense of it. Maybe I knew what a mess this would be when we moved to the west coast. I was only a child but I think I knew. It seemed…