An Introduction
This entry was posted on 4/8/2006 7:45 PM and is filed under Introductions, Personally Speaking.
To many I am reintroducing myself, as for a number
of years I presented commentaries on a public radio station which
reached out into several midwestern states. To others I am not known,
so a few words of introduction are in order.
I am a lawyer with a 36 year professional history,
the last 20 of those years primarily spent as a mediator. More recently
the focus of my mediation practice has been on relationships, in
the main marital, some parties struggling to continue to be together
but most on the path to dissolution.
My past commentaries have been wide ranging, both
personal and professional. I plan to continue in both veins. But as my
experience has grown, I've come to wonder whether my daily observations
and interpretations of the relationships which play out before me, as
husbands and wives struggle to negotiate their parting and their future
as parents, might serve others, might provoke a thoughtful pause and
even new ways of behaving towards each other. Perhaps a commentary on
the dynamics of relationships which have faltered can offer useful
insights to others.
We shall see, as the stories unfold.