I recognize that nobody is going to nominate me for the annual person of the year award in the above mentioned community, but I am good with that. I will just put something else in the spot on my shelf that I had reserved for that award. The truth is that while the immediate therapeutic…
My father died a couple of weeks ago. I found out last Thursday, but he died the Friday before that. The only reason I found out is that my brother's ex-wife lives in Florida a few doors away from someone who used to live in the same town outside Milwaukee where my father and his…
I don't think women do this, but I could be wrong. Women hardly ever invite me to eavesdrop on their conversations about sex. Dammit. Some men do this, however, and it's them I would like to discuss today. You women can listen in, I don't mind. There are two versions of this practice that break…
My wife Erin and I were in a fairly significant car accident Friday night when a pickup truck ran a red light. While we are banged up pretty well, we are alive - and that's generally not something you think much about less than a week before the holidays. Ironically, the day before that I…
Somewhere along the way, our society has gone to hell in a handbasket. We drink and drug ourselves into oblivion on a regular basis, a horrifying number of us have been sexually assaulted either as children or adults - sometimes both. Corporations are people, kids are bringing guns to school on an almost daily basis,…
If you want your circumstances to change, you are going to have to take the first step and change how you relate and react to what is happening. If you are not willing to do that, the only one you have to blame is yourself. Nothing can change if everything stays the same.
The problem with relationships is they ask us to trust someone else, and that opens the door to being hurt. This leads some people to choose not to trust (and quite often to be control freaks), the result of which is those people hurt themselves through the stunted life they lead. The self-protection of attempting…
We all carry a certain amount of emotional baggage. Often that baggage impacts our relationships before they even start. How can that be? If you find yourself attracted to person after person who, it turns out, is emotionally or otherwise unavailable, then any "relationship" you believe you are engaged in is doomed from the start.…
Craig Bergland 