In Person
Musings of a citizen psychologist
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
I recently listened to a podcast where the host was interviewing a woman who had devoted her life to working with immigrants. With all the strife, division, and violence in our...
The spiritual exercises: A new adventure
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
If you were to ask what I have been doing since I retired 10 years ago, I would give you a list of interests I have deepened, new skills I have practiced, family ties I have...
The Go-Between: A psychologist’s play for the new year
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
Prologue: Life is not about finding oneself. It’s about creating oneself. So it says on our refrigerator magnet, but I’ve never been entirely comfortable with that idea.
The trouble with angels
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
The trouble with angels is that they are always with us but hard to know. Now as the Christmas season approaches, angels come to life in the carols that tell of their...
Grateful
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
There is a chill in the air on this late summer morning despite the bright sunshine. I am sitting alone at an outdoor table at a busy café enjoying a breakfast sandwich, a...
Rescuing the presumptive queen
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
“Look, Pop Pop! It’s a queen bee.” And so I looked, and with my scant knowledge of bees, I couldn’t find anything to cast doubt on my six-year-old granddaughter’s...
What psychologists can learn from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
I have been reading a lot of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest, geologist, paleontologist, and philosopher who was active in his career during the first half...
What I learned from building a model ship
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
“I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky.” With these words, John Masefield begins his best known poem, “Sea Fever.” They capture the draw that...
You are here: Our lives with maps
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
You are here. Without maps, you would still be here, but you wouldn’t know where here is. Or there, or how to get from here to there. I don’t know when I first had this...