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There is a custom in Minnesota-and I'm not sure to what extent it exists elsewhere-but here and there, roadside memorials materialize that obviously mark the spot of a fatal accident. Sometimes they are in the form of a cross, or sometimes they…

I'm forever getting heartrending pleas from people in pathetic situations from all over the globe. Our IT manager here at NCFR is expert at screening these out, so it's rare to happen at work. But my after hours accounts? Oh, boy. There's enough…

How can parents talk to children about pet loss?

Carl Jung had a word for the eeriness when two or more unrelated events occur together in a seemingly meaningful waySynchronicity. This past week, I came to appreciate this concept that heretofore has seemed like magical thinking. I just returned…

Cues and clues as to one's social class are everywhere. In just a few paragraphs, you've learned a lot about me; that I've read Democracy in America. That I've studied Carl Jung. That I'm a fan of the PBS Power of Myth series. What you don't know is…

One of the most fascinating people I ever met was a compulsive liar.Many years ago, for one of our wedding anniversaries, my husband George and I reserved a fun dinner excursion on a train.It had a vintage dining car where we enjoyed a white linen…

Taxes, paperwork, bureaucracy-- and a very funny sheet of paper.

The endless frustration of getting called by telemarketers during the dinner hour.

Pauline Boss is a pioneer in the subject of family stress and, in the 1970s, she began to notice a type of grief-frozen grief, she calls it-that families experienced when a loss is ambiguous.