Mia Mercado, in The New Yorker in 2018, said that the scariest part about being a human in the world today is unfortunately every part. And that was before COVID. She did offer some suggestions for dealing with the scariest things. For dealing with ghosts, render them defenseless by taking them to a Trader Joe’s where they will be distracted…
My dad was born in 1922, my mom in 24, both first generation Americans. They met at Camp Kindervelt when they were 16 and 14. Dad fought in the war with the 101st mechanized cavalry which was the advanced troops, the scouts. So he was there when some of the camps were liberated, and saw most of his fellow soldiers…
You might say I came to premarital counseling backwards. I spent 19 years as a divorce lawyer, and worked with approximately a thousand litigants. Then in 1995 I became a divorce mediator, and worked with over a thousand couples. That’s a lot of trauma. In mediation, I worked with couples who had a failed marital relationship, yet wanted to have…
I read an article a while ago in which Lisa Kudrow told the story of her son’s bar mitzvah. Her son, 16, went to the mall to buy a game. He met some men who asked if he was Jewish. He told them half, from his mother.“That’s good,”they said and asked if he had had a bar mitzvah. He hadn’t.…