I lie next to him, our wrists touching lightly. I can feel his pulse on the back of my hand. Or maybe it's mine, I can't tell. His hands are beautiful - strong, with long, tapered, artists' fingers. The blue highway of veins is slightly raised and delicate. Have I ever really noticed them before?…

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. ― Edgar Allan Poe "I've got to figure out what I'm going to be for Halloween, Mom," my son told me a few weeks ago. My son is 23 years old.  Well, he will be soon - on Halloween, to…

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection    -  Buddha Recently, I had an interesting response from a therapist friend of mine, to my blog post, Reflections On a Bipolar Life. He commented on how my piece illustrated a concept in the mental health field known as "self-compassion." In…

Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature, in a world of close to seven billion people. Achim Steiner,  U.N. Under Secretary General What's killing all the honey bees? That is the question posed by Swiss filmmaker Markus Imhoof, in his documentary More Than Honey. With breathtaking cinematography, Imhoof documents…

Summer is winding down and the nights are getting cooler here. Apples are ripening and the dry grass has been cut from the fields.The air has a crisp feel to it that hints at fall. Soon we will be entering our third season here in Switzerland. I love this season more than any other. Some…