As Strong as an Elephant

by | Jan 16, 2013 | Psychology

A friend recently shared a penetrating parable with me. He grew up in a prominent South American country, and he tells me his grandmother–he didn’t identify her as maternal or paternal–that she was a primary parenting/mentoring figure in his life. A...

Football, the Myers-Briggs and Jesus

by | Nov 29, 2012 | Psychology

In recent years, the Goose Creek High School varsity football team, a school located in an adjoining county, near Charleston, has become dominant in South Carolina high school football competition. Among the largest-schools-in-the-state classification, Goose Creek was...

Who or What Defines You?

by | Oct 21, 2011 | Psychology

Across my nearly seven decades of living, I have decided that the most important question for any of us is, “Who or what defines us? Who or what tells us who we are?” For some, it is primarily material; for others, moral and spiritual–or perhaps...

Hide the Weiny

by | Jul 18, 2011 | Psychology

A local food editor recently published an article about visiting her sister in Cleveland. Her various interests on the trip included, of course, exploring the Ohio city’s cuisine. The article contained several pictures, one of which was a homemade sign in the...