NEW PERSPECTIVES

Joy and sadness often seem like opposites, but they can coexist, enriching our human experience. To live a joyful life is not to escape...

5 Qualities of a Joyful Life A joyful life is a day-to-day existence in which you: 1. experience deep appreciation for the wonder of...

My husband exudes a certain elegance. I wouldn’t call him arrogant or elitist. But it’s obvious. He simply walks with the...

In this season of Passover we find ourselves in the midst of a new killing spree. Instead of the Pharaoh we have Corona. We’ve all become...

It seems to me that our country (and our world) is more divided than ever.  An interaction with the new husband of a long-time friend at...

My mother used to tell me, “No means no.”  Not very illuminating.  As a teenager, NO was a clear rejection, an invalidation of me.  I...

After two and a half years of an on-again/off-again relationship, Diana called it quits.  I asked her why and she said, “We had a big gap...

Attractiveness I hear it often – “I’ll be attractive when I lose 20 pounds,” or “get a promotion,” or “a face lift,” or… If you don’t see...

‘we’ is a physical, emotional, and spiritual experience of two or more individuals in which each is fully satisfied in their coexistence....

Identity is a story that comes in three basic parts.  First is communion – who we are connected to, who we love; second is agency – what...

Do you wake up in the middle of the night and lie awake for too long?  I do. Often. I have fallen into an (annoying) habit of awakening...

What distinguishes partnership, whether intimate or business, from all other types of relationship is the declared commitment of each of...

WHY YOU REALLY CAN’T SAY, “I SHOULD HAVE OR COULD HAVE…” It is tempting and all-too-common to look back and say “I should have done this”...