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Parental control
Posted on February 7, 2015 19 Comments
All this week I have been thinking about the issue of parenting. One reason was my folks dropped in unexpectedly and we needed to scramble to organize our days (and house) to accommodate them. This almost never happens. For one thing, my dad isn’t crazy about California. For another, he hates to be away from his […]
To be or not to be … a parent
Posted on July 12, 2014 6 Comments
When I was on jury duty, we had a lot of downtime waiting on the benches outside the courtroom until our case resumed. In a previous post, I mentioned that the halls would reverberate with the anguished discussions of people involved in contentious divorces and child custody battles. I often sat next to a fellow juror in […]
Save Tigger
Posted on April 6, 2014 16 Comments
As I was sitting at my desk this morning applying the latest in one of my favorite nail polish lines (Essie) to my nails, ‘Go overboard’ — a rich, dark sea green, to coordinate with the five new outfits I have already lined up on the bench next to my bed for the week ahead, I was […]
Till death (all of) us do part
Posted on March 23, 2014 32 Comments
This is what I would consider a ‘think piece’ and it is still a thinking-in-progress, really my mind working out loud, so please indulge me as I spin this. I have the rare opportunity to be forced out of my comfortable niche and into a foreign environment, little different from the one that Margaret […]
Abknoxious
Posted on February 3, 2014 12 Comments
There are so many compelling current news stories that grab my attention that I have to filter out what I read so I am not overwhelmed. That is largely because they are at base about human behavior, which is after all, my chosen field and my main interest in life. Because I am a psychologist, […]
Beth Byrnes 
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