Think Like A Lawyer – To Feel Like a Human Being Again
“The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.” - Dalai Lama In my last post, I talked about how lawyers are trained to think. Objectively....
View ArticleHow To Talk About Therapy II – Confronting The Fear
“Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.” - Japanese Proverb. I got a lot of really great feedback about my recent post, I’m Not Saying You’re Crazy – How To Talk About Therapy. Thank you all for...
View ArticleFallacies In The “Wisdom” of Psychopaths
“Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.” - Elie Wiesel. In the new book, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What saints, spies and serial killers can teach us about success, by Kevin Dutton, we are...
View ArticleRaging Against The Machine – Health Insurance v. Healthcare
“Insurance – an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.” ~ Ambrose Bierce. When I was a...
View ArticleGet Your Hopes Up – There’s Little Reason Not To
“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.” ~ Thomas Carlyle ~ I was talking to a friend recently who was telling me about a job opportunity she was interested in. It sounded like a...
View ArticleBaseball Gods Answer – Happy Father’s Day
Several years ago, I wrote this piece about one little league baseball game during the middle of a long season. While my son, Joey, is now 14 years old and has made himself into quite a player, this...
View ArticleInternalizing Freedom
“Remember, Red, hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.” ~ Andy Dufresne. I was flipping through the channels the other day, when I alighted on The Shawshank...
View ArticleSearching for A Profound Experience
“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”- Lao Tzu I recently visited the Elements Behavioral Health facilities in Malibu California. These...
View ArticleMental Health In Law Firms – The Elephant In The Room
Mental Health In Law Firms – The Elephant In The Room Here’s an article by Paul Tsurutani published in the Association of Legal Administrators Magazine for October/November. I’m quoted. Reprinted with...
View ArticleThank You For Your Support!
I was recently featured in the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly column Uncommon Law, in an article entitled “Counselor at Law,” about my transition out of the law and the journey to becoming a social...
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