Can you remember a time in your life when you did not know how you where going to make it or even if you were going to make it? I know I have on several occasions . I think most of us have lived through several of them, and have survived despite our worst fears. Getting through …
The media is flooded with news of our high-powered Olympic athletes who have sacrificed all to win. Many have spent the most precious years of their childhood shoved and pummeled towards winning. Years of grueling training, three to five hours a day for a moment of glory. A glory indeed well deserved! But at what …
Winning an Olympic Medal; Exploitation for Glory Read More »
Do you see yourself going through life slow and steady or racing about with great speed? One on my many observations about people is that each of us has different rhythms of living. How we pace ourselves in life generally is perfectly fitted to our own unique personalities. …
I went to Paris Plage yesterday, which has become a marvelous institution now for 11 years, The basic idea was to create a beach for Parisians who are so “unfortunate” to be stuck here in the city during the traditional vacation months of July and August. …
The French have an absolutely marvellous word for love at first sight, calling it a “coup de foudre”, which translates out to being struck by a bolt of lightning! To me that sorts of sums it up as the ultimate meaning. this mysterious love, at first sight, is really a feeling of being struck with …
One of the great things about living here, in addition to being surrounded with the incredible beauty, is all the free things you can do. The Musee du Quai Branly just next to the Eiffel Tower announced that they would be offering a free Chinese tea ceremony on this past Sunday. This activity coincided with their …
When I was just starting out as a therapist, it seemed that I was seeing a lot of anxiety disorder patients. This was because my psychiatrist colleague was well-known as being the sine con ultra in treating them, therefore we drew patients from the three bordering states. Anxiety disorders are varied from generalized anxiety disorder …
This past weekend was the annual gay pride parade which I have always loved going to. The incredible colors, the outlandish costumes, the very bare skins, the brazen frivolities of gay youth, all mixed with the ubiquitous base driven beat drumming in your ears. A time when being non gay makes you feel left out, …
On being Gay; Compassion and Understanding Still Needed Read More »
I awoke last night with this incredible smell of honey that came with a cool breeze and bloomed like a cloud in my bedroom . I knew that this odor must be coming form the mass of tall trees across the avenue that are sugar dusted with little white flowers. I started to think of …
Plastered all over the Paris subway system are huge purplish red advertisements for an international internet dating site for extraconjugal affairs. With a photo of an apple, bitten into, the major pitch lines are the bold and audacious proclamations ” Être fidèle à deux hommes, c’est être deux fois plus fidèle”. That translates out that women …
Park Montsouris is one of the prettiest parks in Paris nestled in the southern part of the city. In the fall of 2010, the country of Poland sent two black Australian and two white swans to grace our lovely park. With much to do and fanfare consisting of an elaborate musical celebration the swans …
If you think you might be risking only a possible unfriendly STD, think again! True, there is no such thing as safe sex, just “safer”sex, but there are other consequences than just the physical ones. In 28 years of practice, the psychological melee of promiscuous sexual adventures are most commonly brought in, not surprisingly, by …