After I graduated from seminary, I joined the multiple staff of a large church in Sacramento, California. I grew up in Sacramento, so in one way it was like coming home. That church had been my home c...
In the summer between the third and fourth grades we moved house. We lived in the Central Valley of Northern California, and we moved into an old, family house on the top of a hill. There were oak tre...
Have you ever tried to trim a beard? Have you?
I once stood in front a mirror trying to get the thing absolutely symmetrically perfect. I'd cut a little off this side, and then I'd notice it looked ou...
Ethical problems in professional organisations are handled by codes and complaints, by boards of inquiry, and by consequences. Some consider such things punitive and harsh; others see them as necessar...
I want to do a “Part Two”. I’m still thinking my way through a subject. Someone responded to what I wrote last week about homosexuality, and this person told me that she thought that homosexuality was...
I started to write, “People are upset about homosexuality”, but that is not as accurate as it is to say, “People are upset by homosexual people”. The first is a subject over which we can debate, and w...
Psychology, linguistically speaking, is the study of the soul. Psyche is the Greek word for soul. Logos means “expression” and in today's vernacular it refers to the study of something. This all bring...
The house is quiet. It is more than still; it is absent one person, and her absence makes a difference.
Dixie, one of our cats, jumps up and cries. She looks all over the house for the absent person, ...
When I meet with people, that is, when I meet with people to do psychotherapy together with them, I try to focus that meeting. The focus is not what I want out of the meeting but what the client wants...
Right now there is a chill in the room. At least I think there is.
Perhaps the chill is in me instead of the room. My wife has had the flu, a nasty bronchial congestion and cough, for about a week, a...
