FEST Writing Group

The protests across the United States have gotten me thinking about the many conversations I’ve had with my son and stepdaughter about race. They also have renewed my questions about what it means to be “the other” in society and what Bowen theory has to say about that. My family is racially mixed. My husband and.

My mother died on September 15 after a four-year illness that demanded a lot of care from her family, especially her husband and her three daughters, including me, the oldest sibling. All through her illness and the process of her death, I would joke that my four siblings and I were playing above our talent —.

I often have thought of public communications, particularly journalistic communications, as akin to the weather. It’s hot. It’s cold. It’s windy or snowy. For those of us who aren’t meteorologists or addicted to the Weather Channel, we simply adjust to the conditions and move on. Unless the rain ruins a beach day or the winds.

I wasn't going to post this period because I returned from a trip to France Monday to a series of mishaps and emergencies at home -- a gravely sick father-in-law, an elderly mother whose cochlear implant died, a crashed computer and finally a violently ill dog. All in a week of an unusually heavy client.

In some of his writings, Dr. Bowen asserted that democracy is unstable, at least in part, because elections are much too subjective and guided by the emotional system. He suggested that we could reach the point where we would need a monarch or benevolent dictator who could make thinking-based decisions and restore order and good functioning. I.

Four hundred years before the Holocaust, Martin Luther decried Jews in the most inflammatory terms. He said they drank the blood of Christian children, and called for their killing, the taking of their property and the burning of their homes. Scholars draw a line from those words to the systematic extermination of European Jews under.

Note to everyone: I have bitten off way more than I can chew as I continue to observe and think about New Bedford, a poor city near to me that is trying to revive itself against multiple challenges. It has gotten me thinking about immigration, self rule, the role of the natural environment, the larger.