December, 1997. New local paper. Coincidentally, it’s also the month I moved into Sleepy Hollow, having moved to Westchester a few years before. I worked in Rockland and made that […] Read more »
In recent months there have been scores of accusations of sexual misconduct by famous, rich, and/or powerful men. A social media movement labeled #metoo identified victims of outright violent […] Read more »
In planning for this issue, Publisher Robert Bonvento and I decided to get into the spirit of the season and write about what people like about being scared on purpose, […] Read more »
This is the time of year when so many 18 year-olds set off to launch their new lives in college dorms. Every year at this time, I see a few […] Read more »
As a psychologist, and as any therapist can attest, I often scratch my head and wonder why people stay in the situations they do, make the same mistakes over […] Read more »
Our April edition of the River Journal published a letter by Daniel Rush of Irvington, regarding my article about charter schools. I am responding simply to clear up some misinformation. […] Read more »
Every year in my practice I tend to have at least a couple of twelfth graders getting ready to move on to college. Some of our local districts are fairly […] Read more »
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, nearly 20 percent of adults in the United States experience mental illness in a given year and approximately four percent experience […] Read more »
Early February gave us two historic tie-breakers. First, the Super Bowl ended in a tie causing an overtime period, then the confirmation of Betsy DeVos resulted in a tie-breaker by […] Read more »
Back in the 1980s, before Al Gore was a heartbeat away from the Oval Office, his wife, Tipper, was better known in some circles on a national stage. And I […] Read more »
