Couples and families come to therapy. They come hoping for change. They come looking for a way out of stuckness. They come looking for hope and solutions. They come as an act of faith. They come as an act of courage. Or because the mate or the parent put them in a metaphorical headlock and dragged them there under protest. They come because, from the inside of great intimacy, … [Read more...]

The hand of God stopped me from becoming bi-partisan last Saturday evening after I spent the day wallpapering the world with fair and balanced announcements. The local Democratic Party hosted its annual crab feed at the City of Sparks Community Center. Meanwhile, the Washoe Republican Party produced its annual Lincoln (mea maxima culpa) Day Dinner at Reno’s Atlantis … [Read more...]

The U.S. Supreme Court has finally brought the hammer down on the abusive law enforcement practice of civil asset forfeitures — seizing of cars, money and property simply because it might have some tenuous link to some alleged crime. The court has unanimously ruled that such seizures can violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition against excessive fines. The case involved … [Read more...]

Big news today is that President Trump is meeting with North Koreas Kim Jong-un in Vietnam. Everyone is watching to see what substantive events will occur. Backers of Trump are hoping that he will push for more denuclearization. Enemies of Trump, the mainstream media, are rooting for a Trump failure. Other nay sayers are afraid that Trump will give away too much and get very … [Read more...]

I promise confidentiality to patients. It is a holy promise. I lock the stories I hear in a vault inside of me utterly defended. With the exceptions of children being hurt, or my duty to respond to threats to self or others, I wouldn’t talk even if not talking put me in some jeopardy. Because, if I did betray this trust just to save my own bacon, I’d be violating a value that … [Read more...]

The frequency of gun violence calls for a senseless and futile gesture and Nevada Democratic lawmakers are just the ones to do it. In a matter of days this past week the Nevada Legislature passed Senate Bill 143, which requires background checks to be conducted prior to the sale or transfer of any firearm by a private individual to anyone other than an immediate family … [Read more...]

After Democrats read the following, I may have to re-register as a Federalist, a Whig, a Tory, a Laborite, a Silverite, a Communist or perhaps a Know-Nothing. I’ve been called worse, but it must be said: Czar Donaldov has finally done something right. Quite accidentally, of course, a purely unintended consequence, kinda like El Presidente hisself who’s the personification of … [Read more...]

At the time of this writing, a week ago, the main topic of conversation at a local caffee klatch was the ludicrous New Green Deal authored by Ocasio-Cortez. One attendee wondered what O-C was smoking, drinking or ingesting. Another said that currently O-C is like a loose cannon rumbling around the halls of Congress. Here are some of the high points of her proposal; … [Read more...]