Poppy In working with my clients I have been overwhelmed by their sense of cynicism. Why wouldn't they be cynical: they were born into 9/11. Yes, that's my daughter, born in 2001, missed most of college due to COVID and wracked with debt in a faltering job market; in a flattening world. How in the world do I help them make sense of it? I feel like telling my daughter I'm sorry that you don't know the absolute joy of riding your bike after school without a phone. I'm sorry there's no Jewish...

xmas day 2025 We started moving down from Scarsdale slowly at first.  A kind of slow drip/grind of loss.  Where do you go if you start off high?  I don’t just mean as far as status.  I mean as an experience, a process, so that ultimately you end up an acetic or something.  I’ve been told I have too much clutter so I guess that’s why.  I like to hold on to things. It could have been a divorce like any other.  Wait, I should start earlier if it’s a memoir.  My parents’ marriage was…  Ok let’s...

The whole reason I went into this thing is because after college I was rather shocked. No longer around thousands of kids my age, I looked around for the gaggle of friends I always had to sustain me. Empty, broken, bored, and scared, I flailed about and got more friends. But what if it doesn't come that easily for you? What if the dating apps make you obsess so much that you would rather read War and Peace at the library? We can say it's a critical time in a child's life - the chance to...