Earth, Sun, and Rocks (12/04/06)

Essay No. 50 (essay on why I write essays - 01/05/04)

Essay No. 64 (06/21/04)

Everyone Needs a Friend Like Her (06/09/08)

Grammar with Ketchup (01/23/06)

Hester, Constance, and Sarah (11/17/08)

Last Essay (12/01/10)

Loss of Innocence (05/25/07)

Lost Dreams, Part I (08/11/03)

Lost Dreams, Part II (08/18/03)

Memorial Day (05/26/08)

Mrs. Obama's Handbag (07/13/09)

My Books, Mine (06/06/05)

My Car Was Abducted by Space Aliens (05/27/02)

Nothing to Do (02/11/08)

Office Romance (10/18/04)

Old Guitars for the Young at Heart (10/16/06)

Quilters Own the World (06/23/08)

Self-Renewal in the New Year (01/03/05)

Sydney Poitier Modality (06/17/02)

Taking Sick Days (10/02/06)

Thank You to the World (10/03/05)

Twin Towers of Italy (03/18/02)

Valentine's Day (02/17/03)

Welcome Home, Journalists (08/05/09)

Writer's Trash File (06/21/07)

Writing Is Like Walking Down a Dark Street (07/09/07)

Writing without Plagiarizing (11/12/07)

Yard Sales: Axis of the Economy (06/07/04)

Yard Sale Sensibility (12/02/02)

Religious Commentary

Art and Heresy (04/04/07)

Art, Decency, and Money (02/02/04)

Black Church as Sociopolitical Community (05/05/08)

Calling for the Resignation of Cardinal Mahony (07/18/07)

Delusion and Worship (08/24/07)

Doers of the Word (02/07/05)

'Farewell Applause' (essay on Pope John Paul II - 04/04/05)

Freud Deserves Respect (includes definitions of Basic Defense Mechanisms - 02/04/08)

'Many Mansions' (06/24/10)

Miracle or Rescue: They Were Saved (07/29/02)

No National Day of Prayer at Nation's Capital (05/11/09)

Notre Dame ou Notre President (06/01/09)

Professional Perpetrators (11/06/06)

Should Leaders Apologize? (04/01/02)

Tale of Two Churches, One City (12/17/01)

Three Wishes for the New Year (01/02/06)

Tony Blair Is Not the Antichrist (07/02/09)

We Do Not All Worship the Same God (10/29/07)

Social Work and Psychotherapy

After the Crisis (02/04/02)

Bringing Out the Best in People (03/08/04)

Cheaper Than Therapy (11/04/02)

C.E.U.'s and M.S.W.'s (05/22/06)

Dentistry with Social Work Impressions (06/03/02)

D.S.M: Color It 52 Years Old (04/07/03)

Essay No. 78 (12/06/04)

Freud Deserves Respect (includes definitions of Basic Defense Mechanisms - 02/04/08)

Giving Up Is Not a Social Work Option (10/04/04)

Kindness of Strangers (02/06/06)

Let's Be Vigilant Regarding Homegrown Terrorists (11/30/09)

Meet Me Halfway (10/06/03)

N.A.S.W. Endorses Obama (09/10/08)

New Orleans and Social Welfare (11/07/05)

No Generic People (02/03/03)

Patient, Client, Consumer (03/07/05)

Pop Quiz for Social Workers (08/16/04)

Practicing Therapy without a License: The Right to Work? (07/24/06)

Should Therapists Be in Therapy? Part I (03/22/04)

Should Therapists Be in Therapy? Part II (04/05/04)

Should Therapists Be in Therapy? Part III (04/19/04)

Signs and Symptoms of Child Abuse (08/15/07)

Social Workers in Loan Debt (05/12/08)

Social Work Success (10/01/01)

Taking a Therapeutic Stand (11/18/02)

That's Your Opinion (08/02/04)

Therapy and Cigarettes (08/05/02)

Trust and Credibility (03/01/04)

When Patients Quit (03/03/03)

When You Don't Like a Patient (10/07/02)

Ye Olde Social Worker (08/19/02)

Some Random Notes

April Notes (04/05/10)

August Notes (08/06/07)

December Notes (12/19/05)

March Notes (03/16/09)

September Notes (09/22/08)

Some Random Thoughts

Random Associations (09/04/06)

Riddles (03/20/06)

Suggestions for Social Workers

12 Books for Conservative Social Workers (09/11/09)

American Documents for Social Work Study (list of 55 documents - 05/02/05)

American Novels for Social Work Study (brief summary of 8 novels - 07/04/05)

Disaster Resources for Mental Health Workers (09/05/05)

Free Publications for Mental Health Workers (05/03/04)

Reading Lists (06/19/06)

Technology

Got a Defective Computer? Part I (12/16/10)

Got a Defective Computer? Part II (12/18/10)

Got a Defective Computer? Part III (12/20/10)

Got Floppy Disks? (06/16/08)

Terrorism

Anthrax Better Than Alcoholism? (10/15/01)

Beyond Comprehension (02/18/02)

Bully Is Captured (essay on Saddam Hussein - 12/15/03)

Bully Is Executed (essay on Saddam Hussein - 12/31/06)

Bully Is Killed (essay on Abu Murab Al-Zarqawi - 06/12/06)

Cipro Needs a Remedy, Part I (01/07/02)

Cipro Needs a Remedy, Part II (01/21/02)

Could 9/11 Happen Again? (01/12/04)

Jordan: A Lesson in Vigilance (11/12/05)

Hatred Complex and Self-Hatred Sequence (01/07/08)

Let's Be Vigilant Regarding Homegrown Terrorists (11/30/09)

Life Is Short (11/19/01)

Post-Iraq Views of the New Year, Part I (01/01/09)

Post-Iraq Views of the New Year, Part II (01/12/09)

Post-Iraq Views of the New Year, Part III (01/19/09)

Post-Iraq Views of the New Year, Part IV (01/28/09)

Regrouping for the New Year (essay on the Bhutto assassination - 01/01/08)

Response to Abdal-Hakim Murad (04/15/02)

Response to S.M. Atif Imtiaz (05/06/02)

Tale of Two Churches, One City (12/17/01)

Terrorist Soft Theory (07/22/05)

Two Years After the Attack (09/01/03)

Westminster Bridge, July 7, 2005 (essay on the London bombings - 07/13/05)

Why Ask Why? (12/03/01)

Win the War on Terrorism Forever (03/04/02)

World Series 2001 (11/05/01)

What It Means to Be American

'Deeper Than Color' (essay on Gordon Parks - 06/05/06)

Fourth of July (07/03/06)

Nation of Neighbors (01/19/04)

Queen Visits Jamestown (05/07/07)

Quest for True Americana, Part I (essay on Ralph Waldo Emerson - 09/02/02)

Quest for True Americana, Part II (essay on Carl Rogers - 09/09/02)

Quest for True Americana, Part III (essay on Martin Luther King, Jr. - 09/16/02)

Really American, Part I (09/06/04)

Really American, Part II (09/13/04)

Really American, Part III (09/20/04)

Really American, Part IV (09/27/04)

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