Category Archives: relationships

Beyond Oreos

 
I was just in Hawaii for vacation last week. It was a beautiful time for me to rest and enjoy the unbelievable sunshine and landscape of Lanai Island. I got time to recharge and to re-set myself in hopes of resting and coming back to work with fresh insight and a more centered sense of [...]

Biological Benefactors: How male privilege has been reinforced by the faulty belief that men are physically stronger than women

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I am not sure how old I was when I was first told that “boys are stronger than girls”, or when that notion transformed itself into the endemic belief that “men are stronger than women”. I certainly don’t remember a time when I was [...]

The multiplicity of me (or should I say us)

I must admit, I really relate to those who wrestle with the mental illness Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as “Multiple personality disorder”)
(For pop culture reference of Dissociative Identity Disorder, see Sally Field in her film, “Sybil”)
Granted, I know that this disorder is not commonly seen with positive implications. I know that our culture does not [...]

Art Fart.

I used to have a strong conviction that I was not artistic. Creative yes. Artistic no.
Artists were painters, and sculptors, and those who could draw things that actually looked like the things they were drawing.
I was merely a consumer of art. (And not a very good consumer at that).
But then I got older, and things [...]