02/23 2011

Letting Id All Hang Out

Ah, yes.. the id.  That Freudian psychoanalytic term for the part of our personality made up of unconscious energy existing to satisfy all our basic urges, needs, and desires.  We all know that feeling when the id takes over and is pushing us with itsREAD MORE

 
02/16 2011

Throw a Wrench in It!

Everything in my life happens in themes.  I have learned over the years to simply step aside and see what themes emerge.  Although I’ve received training in a number of therapeutic orientations – including psychodynamic, behavioral, and humanistic – I can’t help but conceptualize whatREAD MORE

 
02/8 2011

4: Hitting the Twitter Motherlode

Tick.  Tick.  Tick.  Tick..

I passed the 100-follower mark on Twitter today.  To those of you reading this who have gazillions of followers: before you scoff and say “whoopdee-effingdoo,” please know that, based on nothing rational whatsoever, this is an important milestone for me.

So is theREAD MORE

 
02/2 2011

Movement 3 in Blog Minor

Question:  What is a Movement?

Answer:  A Movement is a self-contained work separated by silence within a larger work.  Usually, each Movement is distinguishable by its tempo, key, rhythmical patterns, and harmonization.

I had begun writing this blog thinking that I would use “Days” to mark timeREAD MORE

 
01/30 2011

Day 2

Today I am an online nobody.

I currently have 23 “followers,” I “follow” 59 tweeters (would it be sacrilege to call us “twits?”), and I have put out 66 tweets (here, I prefer the term “twitters” for its visceral quality).  In contrast, my current online guru,READ MORE

 
01/11 2011

Day 1:

Yep…  That’s my blog title, and here goes my blog:

I came to this title after many years of starting various blogs, writing blog posts here and there – the latest being “The Relationship Conversation” (which has a lot of thoughts in it, but zero posts).READ MORE