I just finished the Season 3 finale of Shrinking, the current top Apple TV show starring Harrison Ford, Jason Segel, and Jessica Williams as a trio of therapists in a group practice in LA. There’s been a lot of positive coverage lately about the way Ford depicts...
A Modern-Day Bread and Circus, Interrupted Earlier this month, as millions gathered around televisions, snacks, and group chats for the spectacle that is the Super Bowl, something unexpected happened. In the middle of the country’s most-watched sporting event- a...
I’ve been living abroad for over two years now, far from Rhode Island, far from the places that shaped me. And yet when I learned about the recent mass shooting at Brown University, my body reacted as if I were right there. I wasn’t in direct danger the way people I...
I sobbed for ten minutes straight at the end of I Like Me, the new John Candy documentary. And again when I watched it a second time. I cried for him, for my dad, and for every person who learned to carry their pain quietly. And it wasn’t just because he died so young...
Stop messing with our icons! My family and I just watched the new Christmas movie, Red One, which is a cross between the Marvel franchise, Platoon, and Santa Clause is Coming to Town. Perplexed? Same. (I also found the tangential Jumanji reunion between the Rock and...
“He won.” Sleepy and disoriented from staying up way too late the night before, I looked bleary-eyed at my daughter, who was waking me up to say goodbye before she left for school. I didn’t quite hear her, only noticed the sadness on her face as she clenched her mouth...
My So-Called Adult Life In a recent session with one of my clients, a 20-year-old college student, she lamented about a 50-something coworker making a lame joke that was “so Boomer.” Clearly she equated “Boomer” with being old, uncool, and irrelevant. When I informed...
If you’ve seen this Washington Post and Examination News story, and if you’ve read the comments, then you saw many condemning these social media influencers, and a ton of back-and-forth about the scientific evidence. Is aspartame bad? Is it safe for humans to consume?...