The Thing Is…

The Thing Is…

Some books can appear at exactly the right time in your life and help you find your way. Ellen Bass’s book The Courage to Heal was one such book for me in 1988. I was just beginning the journey that far too many women (and men) take to understand and heal from...
Africa

Africa

In 1981 when I told my family I was going to Africa through a graduate-student exchange program, my father called it “the dark continent.” While I was slightly more informed, what I knew before I left for a summer working in a remote village in Kenya would have fit on...