My seven-year-old son started playing in our town’s youth basketball league this year. I’m one of his coaches. Now, as any truthful observer of this kind of squad will admit, playing is a loose term. As the kids do their best to pass (we have a three-pass minimum), shoot and defend, ther...

One week after this blog unveiled its first poll (See my post of Feb. 26, 2009: first blog poll.), I thank each of the dozen or so readers (as of yesterday) who took a moment or two to answer. The question was “If you reviewed bills submitted by law firms over the past six months, what do you esti...

Help me support a friend whose father attempted suicide. Added complication: my friend is half a world away from both his family and me. My friend "M" called me a few hours ago with the horrible news that his father had attempted suicide. Its caught him and his family completely off-guard ...

another live blog from the career management conference! glenn olien works in employment/career counselling in the construction industry warning: aptly, since this is about chaos theory in counselling, these notes will be somewhat chaotic, more than the two live blogs before. kind of like twitter on...

this is a live blog of the talk given by norm amundson from the department of educational and counselling psychology and special education at the university of british columbia at the career management association’s annual conference here in vancouver.  the topic is active engagement - the be...

I have a long time caller that is in residency as a psychiatrist. I’ve known him forever it seems like, and we talk about a lot of things aside from “phone sex�. We end up going a few hours on the phone because we both enjoy good conversation in general too. So you get the point… I like him ...

"Therapeutic community" is a phrase in vogue in the areas of mental illness and addiction. Groups are formed in which patients or clients live together for an extended period and take responsibility for each other. It sounds suspiciously like church to me. The Church: The Ideal Therapeutic Community...

From Slate.com: Penelope Trunk is one of the most interesting and provocative writers about career happiness—and happiness in general. (I think it’s almost impossible to untangle these two issues, but Penelope might disagree with me on that.) She wrote a terrific book, Brazen Careerist ;...

Here is another guest post on the subject of homosexuality.  This time my friend reviews  Desires in Conflict, Hope for Men Who struggle with Sexual Identity by Joe Dallas. The updated version of this book was written in 1991 but the message stands true still. As the subtitle states, the book give...

By:  LINDSEY O’NEILL, ESQ. When a marriage fails, dividing the marital property is hard enough when the couple actually has assets to split.  A divorce attorney colleague of mine recently pointed out that he’s seeing a trend in what’s called the “bankrupt marriage” - ...