At the very end of the session last week, "Teresa" had told me, "When I was eighteen, I had an abortion. My parents never knew. I didn’t even tell the father." She had just now entered my therapy office and took her seat without looking at me,. "Teresa, how are you feeling about telling me …
Author Archives: Karen
A New Lesson from an Old Towel
When I picked up an old towel this morning to polish a silver pendant, I stopped and stared. I bought those green jacquard towels in 1969, when I left to go to college. We will be selling our jewelry tomorrow at a fine craft show and I was finishing a new pendant style of sterling …
A Wrong Answer
When Jesus came upon the man lying beside the pool at Bethesda, he asked him, "Do you want to become well?" That’s a question that calls for a "yes" or "no" answer, but the man said to Jesus, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. …