When I was a special education teacher back in the 1970’s and 1980’s, I used to compose songs for my students and sing them accompanied by guitar.  One child’s parents were going through a divorce, so I wrote a song called ”Mommy and Daddy Are Separating,” I noticed how much my 3rd to 5th grade...Read More

A mother from Georgia contacted me recently about her daughter, BreAnna Nicole White (”Breezy”), who just graduated with an Associate in Science (A.S.) degree this month from Georgia Highlands College in Rome, Georgia, part of the University System of Georgia.  She had a 4.0 GPA (straight A’s), earned President’s List honors, and  received the Excellence...Read More

I just had a 20 minute conversation with transformationalist Susan Gold, former film and TV producer, script coordinator, and now healer of souls, on her podcast Gold Conversations.  In it, I talk about my experience as someone with a mood disorder (unipolar depression), and how, after five episodes of depression over my life (my first...Read More

This is an article I wrote for “Arts of Thought,” a website which shares articles from many different perspectives covering topics like the collective unconscious, self-help skills, philosophical wisdom, and spiritual development.  I’ve written two other pieces for them, Neoteny: The Art of Being Young at Heart, and ‘‘The Spiritual Odyssey: New Theories of Developmental...Read More

On the very day that he was inaugurated, January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order ”Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid,” that effectively cut billions of dollars of aid that had been earmarked for international humanitarian efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, malnutrition, and other afflictions around the world.  The order cut...Read More