Community Theater – Businessman in a Strange Land

#communitytheater #littletheater #amateurtheter Executive producer! That’s my title. Acquired by default, I hasten to add. A little over three years ago, a theater buddy and I decided to start an amateur theater company. I was retired, had time on my hands, and lots of experience on stage. I knew nothing of managing a production, let…

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Forgiving An Unfaithful Partner Ambivalence Takes Over

#divorce #betrayal #infidelity #marriagecounselling #brokenfamily Truth in the therapist’s office is an elusive thing. I could go all week convinced that I no longer wanted to return to my marriage. I missed my children very much. But every time I checked in with them they were doing fine. They were so accustomed to having me…

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Certainty Never a Given in Remarriage

#Divorce #Remarriage #Therapy #Doubt “You didn’t!” a friend exclaimed when I told her that I posted my most recent article. “I’d have thought you’d write it and throw it away.” “Why? It was part of my life, all those years ago.” “But why now, so long . . . What, over 30 years . .…

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Helicopter Parenting – Overparenting an Epidemic

#overparenting #childrearing #parental Helicopter parenting is the term for it. In The Overparenting Epidemic, George S. Glass, MD and David Tabatsky cast a wide net. The authors want to engage parents in an examination of their own parenting practices. Toward that end, the authors gently guide readers with self-assessment exercises and oblique anecdotes about some…

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Elephants, Mankind’s Last Innocence Endangered

#elephants #poaching #endangeredspecies #safari When Cecil, a magnificent twelve year old male lion, was killed by Walter Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota, the world took note. Finally, a cowardly act so outrageous in its cruelty gave rise to an outcry from thousands. Perhaps now, in the anger and grief, attention will be focused on the…

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Midwestern Yankee in a Tar Heel State – Part II

I am a Midwesterner by birth. My grandfather homesteaded in South Dakota. Until my dad went off to college, he had never left his native state. My father referred to the northeastern part of the country as the Wicked East. “People out there,” he often said, “line up on one side of the room to…

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Midwestern Yankee in the Tar Heel State – Part I

I moved to Winston-Salem, NC, in December, 1978. Yep. A long time ago by most measures. For guy who grew up in the Midwest, the adjustments to take up residence in the South took some time. For one thing, the countryside was no longer flat. I couldn’t step out onto the back porch early in…

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