i was reading old emails and doing my normal thing of second guessing myself. second guessing how i responded to friends, wondering if i was pretentious or overstepped or assumed, wondering if a lack of response was somehow a response in itself. in short, totally selling myself short and ignoring one of the most important [...]
i don’t understand what kind of world we live in when two teenagers can dress up in banana & gorilla suits and chase each other across a football field during a game and end up in jail overnight, but two teens who rape a teammate on the bus with a mcdonalds apple pie box only [...]
i was talking yesterday with my clinical supervisor about the impact, the difference we make on people’s lives. at the time i was talking about my professional role as a social worker. i know that a lot of what i do with adoptive families (be they relatives or perfect strangers) is therapeutic. but i hesitate [...]
