It was a nice, crisp and sunny fall day.  A perfect day for a walk! One of my resident’s (patient, customer, client– whatever you prefer– I prefer to call him by his name; “Chester”) wanted to go outside for a walk.  It was a perfectly good idea. The only problem is that Chester had recently […]

Any reader (or listener) of mine already knows how much I believe in Dr. David Burns, MD, and his book "Feeling Good! The New Mood Therapy" where we can learn about "thinking ourselves well." One of the strategies I find most useful to eliminating cognitive barriers to success, you know, how to avoid the things […]

There I was sitting on my make-shift dock fishing.  (I had the good fortune last year of moving to an ugly house on a nice river.   It is a lazy, tidal river that feeds the Chesapeake Bay basin called the Nanticoke River known for its world class Rock fishing during spawning season in late-March into […]

Enough is Enough….!? So…when is enough, enough? I put this question to the test this week with my daughter and her best friend. I had a speaking engagement for the Annual Ryan White Conference in Orlando Florida on Wednesday (this will be the subject of this month’s Newsletter out next week). Since the girls (both […]