by Michael Parise | Dec 10, 2020
For many, the holiday season is a season of joyful expectation, reunions with loved ones, and merry parties and group events. This year is decidedly different for most everyone who has a proper respect for the power of viruses. Yet, even in the best of circumstances,...
by Michael Parise | Mar 6, 2017
Your personal boundaries are sacred. They define who you are, how far you’re willing to go, and how you want others to treat you. No one but you can say what your boundaries are. No matter much others may try to cajole you into adopting their way of thinking, their...
by Michael Parise | Jun 14, 2013
Kids usually like birthday parties…but I remember one that I hated. It was 1956; I was about four years old. A little girl who lived in the three-family house across the driveway from our two-family in East Cambridge on Fifth and Gore Streets invited my brother and...