"You can live without a mother and a father, but you can't live in a world that doesn't make sense to you."
--D.W. Winnicott "Hard Poetry: A Family of Children" is the story of children left to their own devices in a family headed by an alcoholic mother and a "disappearing" father. The author's memories as the oldest daughter, and the stories of the other children after they are grown, reveal patterns of abuse and betrayal by trusted adults, as well as untellable secrets...and the underlying emptiness that is the source of one family's anguish. In its penetrating witness to the darkness...

"Your Personal Guide to Managing Ideas at Work and in Life" ""The secret to not having worries...is to have ideas." Eugene Delacroix" Why do we do what we do? Why are some people happily productive and others, less so? Without a sure sense of the "why" behind our actions, and what "being of use" can mean to us, it can be difficult to sustain the energy needed to accomplish what we hope to achieve in our personal and professional lives. "From Inspiration to Implementation" shows you how to shape your ideas for a stronger result as it explores the mindset we bring to life leadership, and toward...

"Your Personal Guide to Managing Ideas at Work and in Life" ""The secret to not having worries...is to have ideas." Eugene Delacroix" Why do we do what we do? Why are some people happily productive and others, less so? Without a sure sense of the "why" behind our actions, and what "being of use" can mean to us, it can be difficult to sustain the energy needed to accomplish what we hope to achieve in our personal and professional lives. "From Inspiration to Implementation" shows you how to shape your ideas for a stronger result as it explores the mindset we bring to life leadership, and toward...

"I have walked through many lives, some of them my own," declared Stanley Kunitz in his poem, The Layers, "and I am not who I was " In fact, life does change with every moment, and we are always in the act of becoming. Not the Person I Was: Memoir as Tool of Recovery and Discovery discusses the importance of reflecting on the roles we assume in the ever-evolving situations that make up our everyday lives. Not the Person I Was helps readers uncover the subtle turning points of their personal histories, and shows how navigating those turns ultimately affected us, others, and the world itself....