Recently, I had occasion to speak to two friends, on the same day. The conversations couldn’t have been any more different. One friend was celebrating some good news, while the other was struggling under the weight of health issues and needing someone to simply listen and sympathize with them. As someone who cares about both…
A couple of weeks ago I found myself sitting up late one night watching Good Will Hunting, and thinking about abuse survivors. If you’re not familiar with the movie, Matt Damon’s character is a survivor of abuse in a foster home who just happens to also be a mathematical genius. Only he works as a…
As we approach the end of another year, rather than making resolutions, I am much more prone to looking back and the last year, and measuring the success by comparing where I am in live to this time last year. Wow, the end of 2011 looks very different than then end of 2010 did! First…
Over the long holiday weekend, someone left a comment on an old post, that happened to also be the 1,000th comment on this iteration of the blog. I won’t go into the whole comment that was left, but the opening line of the comment left me thinking: I cannot say that I’m a survivor, I’m…
My wife recently returned from a trip to Israel. This weekend, over breakfast, she was telling me about meeting Eliezer Ayalon and getting to hear his story of surviving the Holocaust. The one point of the story that really struck me was that, upon his arrival in Israel, no one wanted to hear about his…
This is not going to be one of my nicer posts, and some of you may get your feelings hurt, but it’s something that I see quite frequently in the survivor, and child advocate, communities that I have a real problem with. Now don’t get me wrong, I understand that phrases like these are a…
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