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           Somewhere along the line, we all have to relive our parents’ marriage, mostly the marriage we saw before the age of five.  During those early formative years, our minds were like sponges soaking up everything we heard and saw.  Reliving your parents’ marriage can be good […]

           If your love life has gotten a little stale lately, and you need to infuse some new life into it, try recreating the lost art of writing love letters, but with a modern twist — send them to each other via email.  With a little […]

               Studies show that the number one thing couples dread talking about is, no, not sex but — money.   Other studies reveal that even though women are out there in the work force in record numbers, when they marry, they still tend to turn over the […]

  1)      As a couple, commit to working on your communication skills.  A year from now you will be amazed how your everyday way of interacting with each other has become joyful, respectful, and filled with great honesty tempered by kindness.  This means that you have to […]

                “And no one dared disturbed the sound of silence.” Paul Simon could not have sung a more fitting song than “The Sounds of Silence,” at the funeral of Victoria Soto, the brave, young teacher,who died trying to protect her young students.  I had just […]

With visions and the reality of super storm Sandy still haunting the Northeast, we now are faced with another all too real nightmare : the mass slayings at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Life deals in metaphors and the name Sandy stood out in my mind.   I took a […]

I was saddened to hear the news that Jovan Belcher, the Kansas City Chiefs linebacker, who was a former high school football star from West Babylon, shot his girlfriend to death in their home, before killing himself in front of three team officials at Arrowhead Stadium. This […]

Police on guard at every gas station? I think this is as horrible a vision as any left by the havoc hurricane Sandy wrought. Have we become such an amoral, narcissistic, lawless society, that a short gas shortage reduces us to Dodge City? Had it been a […]

In the aftermath of super storm Sandy, most of us are sadly in a Katrina state of mind, wondering if and when life will ever return to normal. I am blessed to say, that my power was restored last night, and that — for sure — was […]