I remember the moment a decade ago when a big chunk of education fell in my lap. It was at a workshop on strengthening relationships, during which facilitator Reid Mihalko […]
None of Us Gets Touched Enough
I don’t get touched enough! I silently proclaimed, as I felt for the first time the lightning that occurs when a massage therapist’s hands settle firmly on your back. And […]
The Three Percent Difference
Back in the Stone Age—remember the 1970s?—my senior advisor in graduate School, Harold Bessell, took up the mantle of feminism when he assured parents that girls could do anything boys […]
Dads! Finding Your Daughter’s Friends Attractive Doesn’t Make You a Predator
It’s kind of remarkable how times have changed. Thirty years ago men rarely talked about same-sex attractions or confessed that they actually played around a little with boys when they […]
Learning to Cheerlead Our Partner’s Big Separate Lives
It’s perfectly safe to try this at home. 1. Take two paper plates—one representing you, the other your partner—and lay them on a table side by side. 2. Nudge them […]