In Defense of the Long Spout: A Hoosier’s Case Against Safety Regulations
According to National Public Radio, three people in America once spilled gasoline from a long-spout gas can, resulting in three […]
It’s Only Money: The Wisdom of a Contractor I Almost Didn’t Listen To
We had been in the Buffkin house for approximately three weeks when Jim Kabuta, the contractor who reinforced our sagging
Joe Asked Me If God Has Rules. I Deferred to His Mother.
Parenting, as it turns out, is an extended exercise in being asked questions you are not remotely qualified to answer.
Everything Horace Bannister Taught Me By Humiliating Me in Front of Thirty People
Professor Horace Bannister was a former U.S. Congressman, a big man in every sense, and the last person you wanted
What a Hitchhiker on a Highway in Indiana Knew That I Didn’t
In February of 1981, on my way to a Grateful Dead concert, I picked up a young man named Alfred
The Art of the Strategic Minimization: A Clinical Social Worker’s Guide to Denial
I have spent the better part of my career helping people recognize and dismantle their defense mechanisms. Projection, rationalization, displacement