Benefits of Keeping a Journal Part 1

I’ve kept a journal (or diary) for the last 33 years. I started it when I was in my mid-30s. At that point, I’d been in therapy for five years, during which time I’d gotten the emotional strength to deal with my first marriage. Both my first wife and I were way too young (21

29 Dec, 2013
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A Great Email

I recently received the following email from my youngest daughter: Hi, I decided that this year for Hanukkah I would write a blog and share it with you since you have been so sharing with your blogs this last year or so, and because you shared your journal with me. Hope you

19 Dec, 2013
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Aha Moments

I’m reading the new Malcolm Gladwell book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, and I’m getting a lot out of it,with two points really hitting home. My first “Aha” came from Gladwell’s description of an extremely successful Hollywood mogul and the values and experiences that formed the character traits

12 Dec, 2013
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Fade Out Blockbuster

I was sitting at an outdoor café a couple of nights ago and noticed a photographer taking pictures of the exterior of the video store next to where I was sitting.I quickly concluded that the photographer wanted to document the demise of the video store industry due to Blockbuster Video’s announcement that the company was

5 Dec, 2013
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Reflections on Chanukah and Thanksgiving Happening on the Same Day This Year

All four of my grandparents escaped Eastern Europe’s pogroms, mass killings of Jews,around the year 1900, and immigrated to America. Being Jewish has been a big part of my identity, and I have a very strong sense of Jewish values and traditions, but I’m not religious. I was born in the 1940s, part of

27 Nov, 2013
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