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by Michael Parise | Jul 19, 2012
What have you done for me lately? How often we imagine our boss saying that to us? What if we heard it from our significant other, our kids or our friends? Being judged by our performance of tasks is not always unusual or unfair. This is the norm in a world where...
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by Michael Parise | Jul 9, 2012
Want to hurt a guy? Call him adequate! Nothing upsets a man more than feeling simply adequate: as a worker, as a parent, as a lover. And if he loses his job, his children, or his lover, he frequently feels trapped and depressed because now he is even less than...
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by Michael Parise | Jul 2, 2012
Today we’re learning a bit of Japanese. The term “ichiban” (apart from being the name of a restaurant) means “number one, the best”. Are you ichiban? Are you the most important person in your life? Sunday I met Stephanie. She’s a divorced mother of four; the...
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by Michael Parise | Jun 18, 2012
Confession: I’ve been on a search all my life for true happiness. Haven’t we all? As a child happiness came almost automatically. Our experiences were fresh and new. However we performed academically, school opened up new worlds of possibility for happiness. How...
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by Michael Parise | Jun 16, 2012
The vast majority of fathers in our country are excellent parents. Yet stereotypes about men and assumptions about their maleness are far too prejudicial in a number of areas regarding fathers and their children. Steven Van Valkenburg and Trudy Scheutt write on...
