Sometimes, the brain doesn’t accurately analyze reality. Take this scenario:     When this happens for clinical reasons, it’s called “lack o...

I’m trying to figure out a good metaphor for our abilities.  Working in a rehab hospital reminds me daily that abilities are neither static ...

I frequently tell this parable to my patients.  And honestly, I think I could stand to listen to it myself: Bob was driving to work when h...

The Muses are taking over the website!  Melete, muse of practice, Aoide, muse of song, and Mneme, muse of memory have been inspiring me in b...

As a speech therapist, I am sometimes tempted to focus only on improving my patients’ deficits.   After all, isn’t that what rehabilitation ...

It seems like Pascha (Easter) has come too soon. Near-empty churches are decked in white; we sing that God has trampled death.  But the deat...

I have seen in the movies and read in books that true love is about finding joy in each other, about holding hands and giving roses and wr...

Society has attempted to answer this question in a variety of ways, defining a person’s worth by wealth, social class, language, skin colo...

Sometimes I do too much for too long.  Constantly taking on more and more tasks, I pretend to be a Type A overachiever who has her life toge...

“When will our lives be back to normal?” This is probably the most common question I receive from patients and their families.   I u...

Sometimes, I fail.  I don't finish my daily to-do list.  I overcook dinner.  My words fall flat, or worse, hurt someone’s feelings.  To...

Stop Striving and Start Thriving (with feeding resources for families and SLPs) It’s easy to believe that if you provide the perfect c...

"I realized very clearly that happiness has nothing to do with the material things which surround us; it dwells in the very depths of...

Hello, and welcome to a place where words nourish even more than bread and every day we do the best we can—even when that means making mis...