Working with young adults keeps me young. It also keeps me looking at how I live as I challenge them to pay attention to how they live. I tell them, “ What you do every day matters.” They act as if they have all the time in the world to make a good decision!...
Read more →Mary Elizabeth Williams’ Salon article about Susan Boyle’s Asperger’ diagnosis is a wonderful look at a woman who has struggled all of her life to make sense of herself. The diagnosis of Asperger’s makes sense to Susan Boyle. It was a long time in coming. She is 52. We all struggle with constructing narratives that...
Read more →The Texas Psychological Association newsletter has featured me as the December Member Spotlight. I kind of think they just pull names out of a hat for this honor, but still, it’s nice to have been picked!
Read more →When the launching process is derailed and the young adult returns home, parents often assume that the young adult will soon mobilize into productive functioning. They look for signs that the young adult will get a job, go to the local college, and, in general, get on with things. Parents soon become annoyed that...
Read more →in the November 29 New York Times, Charles Blow wrote about the difficulties children of poverty have accomplishing life goals when compared to the children of affluence. He used the idea of the hill: For some folks, life is a hill. You can either climb or stay at the bottom. It’s not fair. It’s...
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