Welcome to 2021! Especially as we crest the start of the New Year, I am thinking
Some things are so big—War and Peace big—that we ourselves have to grow bigger
As people in the helping professions, is it ever ok–ethically, humanly–to
Is the phrase “vicarious trauma” out-of-date? A relic from another era that tries
This post is taken from a longer Keynote Address delivered at the Through the Eyes
Appeared in The Oregonian, February 25, 2014. If Cheryl Strayed’s Wild was
Appeared in The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas in January 2017. Many times I had seen my
Named a “Notable Essay” in the 2016 edition of The Best American Essays, edited
Appeared in The University of Chicago Magazine, August/September, 2016. More than
Appeared in Governing Magazine, June 1, 2015. Criminals scare me. They know more