The advice “Focus on the positive and you will be happy” does not do it for me. It might be well-intentioned advice, but it comes with an obvious shadow side which says, “You are unhappy because you want to be unhappy.” For years, I felt blamed for expressing unhappiness for …
Scot Lehigh, columnist for the Boston Globe, found himself at a loss for words when a fellow hotel guest started speaking in …
Gaslighting, Child Version I once had a client who was Vice-Principal at an elementary school. In the course of house hunting, I …
I was encouraged by a recent poll about small business owners. It was a survey about the changes wrought by two years …
What’s the opposite of “affordable housing”? I have heard “manhattanization” used, in real estate settings. It means, roughly, “housing cost inflation beyond …