by Mary Carey | Dec 16, 2016 | active listening, being a good guest, dinner guest, holidays
Save me from you this holiday season, or my argument why everyone should have to go through sorority or fraternity rush to attend a cocktail party: We may meet over these next couple of weeks, and I would like to prevent any possible awkwardness. I want to help you...
by Mary Carey | Dec 12, 2016 | Compassion
I saw someone who causes me companger. Companger-when you know you should be feeling compassion but all you feel is anger. I wonder, are some people here to test us, to see if we will take the high road, turn the other cheek, forgive and forget? Nearly everyone I know...
by Mary Carey | Nov 21, 2016 | active listening, being a good guest, Compassion, dinner guest, discrimination, Election, empathy, family, holidays, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving guest
When I was a little girl, maybe six or seven years old, my family and I visited some relatives in Philadelphia, PA. I was upstairs with my brothers and cousins and developed a nose bleed. I was upset at the sight of blood and went downstairs, running to a relative...
by Mary Carey | Nov 7, 2016 | Election
In October of 1995 I was working at a PBS affiliate in Pennsylvania. On the third of that month, we all gathered together in one office to watch O.J. Simpson be declared not guilty in the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and Ron Goldman. The trial had occupied water...
by Mary Carey | Sep 19, 2016 | Compassion, Forgiveness, Guilt, Reconciliation, Redemption, Relationships, Shame
Difficult people have their own math equation. I’m not talking about moody people or people who don’t agree with your politics. I am talking about the people in our lives who send us to the therapist’s couch, the ones who leave you feeling infuriated and wanting to...