I remember, the year was 1987, and I was all too familiar with the hard pack of horseshoe beach that outlined three sides of the bay. I was a 23-year-old testosterone pumping machine. A perfect specimen for Dive School and my instructor’s job was to break the machine. I ran that horseshoe six times prior,

If you notice the date of the post before this, you, notice a three-year gap. I promise the next post won’t be another three years. No, it had nothing to do with Covid. I was completing my Ph.D. Yes, you will be subjected to parts of my dissertation. I have wondered what separates Humans from

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and freewill. —Thomas Carlyle Freewill means we get free range. The idea is that we get to choose for ourselves. The choice then becomes personal, as in you choose how to think,

As a talk therapist, I understand  the power of words. I know the importance of choosing and using the right words because the use of that word can have tremendous influence on any given event or action. People come to me because, like any other health provider, they have a problem. As a talk therapist,

In 1966 I was adopted. In 1976, at the age of twelve, I celebrated Americas Bi-Centennial in Michigan. In 1986 I was in the South China Sea with the Seventh Fleet stationed in Yokosuka, Japan. In 1996 I was in detox at the Newport Hospital in Newport, Rhode Island. Ahhhh, that got your attention. I