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A Moment of Real Impact – It’s Here!

A Moment of Real Impact – It’s Here!

By Wade Anderson, PhD I imagine that at least a few of you who are reading this know who Deion Sanders is. He goes by Coach Prime these days and has taken over the head-coaching position for football at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Sanders was previously known...

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My Weird Barbie, My Self

My Weird Barbie, My Self

By Cara Maniaci, MA, LCSW I too had a Weird Barbie. When I was about 11 or 12, my best friend Sarah and I gathered our Barbies, some hairspray and glue, nail polish remover and marker. We mismatched and cut up the Barbies’ clothes. We removed some of their printed-on...

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The Masters

The Masters

By Erica Forest, LCSW Rodrigo Garcia penned a letter to his deceased father, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in the New York Times on May 6th, 2020, explaining that we were in a pandemic; he wondered what his father would have thought of it. The titles of Garcia Marquez’s...

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Reflections

Reflections

By Julie Willstatter, LCSW-R It was the time of year when endings become beginnings because the ball drops and the clock strikes midnight; demanding I face the reality of time passing.  I’d nestled into the week between Chrismukkah and New Year’s Eve, when suddenly my...

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The Times They are A-Changin

The Times They are A-Changin

It was one week ago today that I arrived by car to visit my alma mater, my partner by my side. It is the place where we met, but didn’t forge our deeper bond till we re-discovered each other a decade later. A place so dear to me, with beauty that defies description, a...

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First Blog

First Blog

By Coren Schwartz, LCSW Ok. I’ll go first. Leslie Phillips and I, as co-chairs for the Leadership Development Committee, created this blog. I believe it’s a great idea. It’s a place where the creative minds from our community can be heard, and our members can listen...

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