Author Archives: Al

!!!!!*****WORKING DRAFT*****!!!!! Janie – Sept. 28, 1978 I really did get the letter you wrote last May, but I’ve been on an extended vacation since Christmas, which is about to end this weekend…After residency, I worked in LA for Kaiser … Continue reading →

!!!!!*****WORKING DRAFT*****!!!!! “Have you polished up those hypotheses for us?” Dr. Klein asked. “We’ve got to start selecting the girls for subjects soon.” Julia had been pushing me for the better part of a year to finish up the background … Continue reading →

!!!!!*****WORKING DRAFT*****!!!!! By the end of my first clinical year at Beth Israel, I felt I’d mastered the basics of therapy. I no longer dreaded meeting a client for the first time, armed as I was with the tools Dr. … Continue reading →

!!!!!*****WORKING DRAFT*****!!!!! January, 1976 Bruce Springsteen Plays Santa Barbara “Geez, do I have the tickets!?” Somewhere past Malibu, I realised I’d left the tickets back in our sun room, keeping company with the philodendrons and African violets. “It’s a good … Continue reading →

!!!!!*****WORKING DRAFT*****!!!!! This time, I felt centered enough to write back. I’d stopped making copies of my letters to Mike, all I remember is congratulating him on finding someone with whom to share this part of his life. Then I … Continue reading →

!!!!!*****WORKING DRAFT*****!!!!! Early Spring, another fat envelope from LA, another of what Mike called “Venice Stories”. OUR DOG HAS MORE FRIENDS THAN WE DO “Go get it, Buff. Come on boy, you’ve got it! OK, now bring it back!” April … Continue reading →

!!!!!*****WORKING DRAFT*****!!!!! My therapist returned from her August vacation just in time to save me from complete collapse before I started classes again my second year at B.U. As usual, we did not discuss her time off. I so wanted … Continue reading →

!!!!!*****WORKING DRAFT*****!!!!! A fat envelope awaited me on my return, postmarked “Los Angeles”. Inside, I found a sheaf of onion-skin secured with a paper clip. The attached card read in it’s entirety, “Janie – I’m writing stories now, not poems. … Continue reading →

!!!!!*****WORKING DRAFT*****!!!!! Over the next three months, I had no time to dream about the future, or worry over the past. I spent many days at the CDU endlessly viewing and re-viewing tapes of the 12 mother-infant pairs as they … Continue reading →