A Must Read for Every Parent
My sister is a high school English teacher. While reading The Grapes of Wrath, a story about a family who is evicted from their farm by the bank during the [...]
Your Children Will Thank You
How many times has this happened to you? Suddenly you are hit with something unexpected that seems to come out of left field or you experience a series of events [...]
Separation Partners
I know this title may seem like an oxymoron of the first order, but really – it’s not. In my last article (Buddies or Partners – An Anatomy of a [...]
Buddies or Partners – An Anatomy of a Marriage
In the almost ten years that I have been mediating families and couples, my thoughts often go to the nature of marriage – what makes it tick, what makes it [...]
Thoughts on Pre-Cana and How it Relates to Mediation – Part 3
Over the past few months as my articles have been posted, many people have shared with me their own experiences and the advice they would pass along to a newly [...]
Thoughts on Pre-Cana and How it Relates to Mediation – Part 2
Part 1 of this series talked about the Pre-Cana classes required by the Catholic Church and proposed the question of whether this would be a good idea for all couples [...]
Thoughts on Pre-Cana and How it Relates to Mediation
As a divorce and family mediator, I often wonder what my clients were like once upon a time…. when they fell in love with each other, became engaged, planned their [...]
Academy of Professional Family Mediators Launch
I am pleased to announce the launch of a new national organization called The Academy of Professional Family Mediators (APFM). I am not only a founding member, but also a [...]
Do You Always Have to Have it Your Way?
Who hasn’t been there at one time or another; caught in a positional web of our own making because of a decision that at the time made perfect sense. But [...]