Interfaith households can pose a holiday season challenge, but also provide the opportunity to be curious and grow as individuals and couples.

Writing and publishing a novel is hard and tedious work. And sometimes takes longer for unexpected reasons. An update on the publication process for Unwrapping.

I first learned I needed glasses when I was in sixth grade. I didn’t start wearing them until college. Why? The bifocal dilemma.

The first time my wife, Terrie, and I both knew our relationship was serious? It had to do with Thanksgiving turkey. A holiday tale.

Some counselors keep their lives to themselves. Me? I like to share little tidbits of who I am—especially in decorating my office and especially when they create conversation that helps the therapeutic relationship.

Prop or tool in therapy? Only the Magic 8 Ball knows.

If we’re lucky, our lives are filled with mentors, helping us along to personal and professional growth.

Finding deeper meaning—a key moment in life—through a seemingly innocent picture from childhood.

For the first time in 43 years of working life, I’m not being paid to write or edit. It’s weird. And oddly liberating.

Writing advice? Old standards may not always work.

When the cosmic tumblers slip into place, a home envisioned as “temporary” can become much more.

Think it’s easy to get squatters out of a home they illegally entered? Think again, my friends.

Sharing about the seemingly unusual (but not really) move from journalism to clinical mental health counseling.

Forty years ago today, a “cub” reporter started his first job in newspapers, at the Fontana Herald News, a 4,000-circulation, six-day-a-week newspaper in Southern California. A man died that day.