by Laura Landgraf | Dec 3, 2019 | Opinion
It was a footnote that changed my life. I had an amazing therapist. In the course of our work together, he would occasionally suggest I read a particular book or watch a movie and tell him what value it had for me. What was the lesson to be learned? The “a-ha” moment?...
by Laura Landgraf | Nov 27, 2019 | Opinion
Dad died Thanksgiving morning several years ago. To write “Dad died” unleashes a snarl of tangled emotions. Love, loss, wishful thinking, anger, “if onlys,” “why?,” longing, forever. I loved that man with wholehearted abandon until loving him was no longer safe. Even...
by Laura Landgraf | Nov 19, 2019 | Opinion
There is a saying, “The madness stops here.” Yes. The madness stops here. It means that my background will not be my children’s. It means, for my son and daughter, incest stopped at my generation. The tangled web we humans weave has emotional tentacles far more...
by Laura Landgraf | Nov 12, 2019 | Opinion
A lovely friend of mine received difficult health news not long ago. As she struggled with her new realities, she wrote that she hoped to discover “the grace of innocence and the lack of resentment at being denied what I had before.” Finding joy in each moment would...
by Laura Landgraf | Nov 5, 2019 | Opinion
Snow fell gently, as I sat reading in front of our evening fire. My husband had gone to bed, but I savored the sound of silence, save for the crackle of the logs – utterly content. Content. Wow. Not striving, not planning or making notes, not wishing I’d done...
