Exploring How Change Affects People
All the recent aging of the parents in the family – my father, succumbing to Parkinson’s; my mother, growing more dependent by the day from who knows what ailment; my mother-in-law, becoming more and more childlike (unfortunately, a two year-old child); my father-in-law, who feels a sense of control slipping away from him and displaces …
When the lottery zoomed to $750 million over the weekend, I bought into the fantasy and picked up a ticket. Then I started thinking about what I would do if I actually won all that money or even a good portion of it. The dreams were distracting me, so I sat down and made a …
Last night, I wondered why I had suddenly started breaking out in a rash. I started to get worried – great, just what I need, another ailment. Then I remembered that I had run out of my allergy medicine last week. I was experiencing the Rebound Effect. This effect occurs when you have been medicated …
That is how my day started: crash! I woke, groggy from lack of sleep, driven out of bed by the sound of the 7 a.m. pounding that greets my weekday mornings now – two massive pile-drivers, pounding away at the bedrock at the end of the block, chipping away a hole for a new foundation …
Do you find yourself tempted by those self-assessments on the internet? The ones that encourage you to take inventory of your life, your strengths, what’s holding you back, and promise to provide direction? I am inevitably suckered in by these assessments. I faithfully copy them into Word, and spend hours completing them, getting more and …
