Columnists, In Person
Reflections on Totality
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
Words are the first to go.
When all that is left of the sun is a circle of light surrounding the black disk of the moon, you are reduced to simple instructions and...
Limping with the bulls: A psychologist tests the market
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
Things are quiet this morning and my heart is beating at its usual steady rate. The adrenaline that was coursing through my body yesterday at this time has subsided with the...
Psychologists and poets
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
Apri is National Poetry Month, and psychologists everywhere are writing poetry.
With Wordsworth they are recollecting intense emotion in tranquility
and helping...
My life with telescopes
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
“You have a telescope! Use it much? What can you see? Can we take it outside and look at the moon?” Our visitor is asking about the telescope in the corner or our living...
Unplugged
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
I am writing today by the dim light filtering into the room from a troubled sky. The rain has been constant since yesterday and the trees, stripped of their leaves, sway with...
On growing old gracefully – or not
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
As I sit at my desk in a too quiet house, I am thinking about my wife who is spending the day with a friend on a senior citizens’ bus trip to view the New England countryside...
Celebrating the holiday season…and yet
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
The holiday season is upon us. We are in the thick of it with Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Diwali behind us and Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanza looming ahead. Feasts of saints,...
Whose story is it anyway?
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
Psychologists are story people, especially when we are trying to help people make more satisfying stories of their lives. Because I am a story person, I am still mulling over...
Writing a spiritual autobiography
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
There will be eight of us, nine if you count me, the workshop leader, lighting up those little Zoom squares like stars blinking onto a twilight sky, one here, a cluster there,...