October 29, 2018   It has been a week It has been a week—the mail bombs sent to prominent Democrats and then the shooting in the Synagogue in Pittsburgh. The mail bombs were intercepted before anyone was hurt and the person who sent them has been identified and is in custody. Of course, you can google […]

Should Professors and Students be friends? In defense of social media I am a professional Social Worker and one of the things that has been clearly placed in our revised code of ethics is that social workers should not be friends with clients on social media and that those of us who teach and supervise […]

Self-care and social justice In my profession, Social Work, we hear a lot about self-care. When we get overwhelmed, get angry or cry about the slights, injustices and micro-aggressions and sometimes macro-aggressions at work we are reminded about self-care. It is like if we are not engaging in self-care we are not doing something right. […]