Category Archives: Writing & Social Commentary

Castration Anxiety: Tales of My First Therapist

Ib Harris, circa 1950   “Jesus Christ the unconscious!” yelled my therapist, Ib Harris, as [...]

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Iron Workers: Final Installment

  This is Mike Carter working on the theater building in downtown Redwood City in [...]

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Reflections on the Iron Worker’s Reception

On August 14, I sponsored an “Iron Workers Reception” at a local Redwood City restaurant. [...]

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Breaking News!

Several years ago, it appears that the United States Congress passed legislation regulating an out-of-control [...]

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How to Make Good Video on a Shoestring Budget

  Q: What do I need? A: An iPhone!     Before you read this, [...]

Warning: Stay away from digital photography!

Warning: Stay away from digital photography! By Rick Gilbert That innocent looking digital point and [...]

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Are you an ESTJ or an INTJ?

            So, you’ve taken all those personality inventories. Are you [...]

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Day of Free Writing

A Remarkable Day of Free Writing with Ellen Sussman Saturday, February 1, 2014 I attended [...]

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Remember Me

Remember Me (read at the service for Kelly Kilpatrick, 2009)     Some say I’m [...]

Only Child

Only Child  (on the occasion of Rick leaving for college, September, 1957) By Connie Gilbert [...]

Give Me One Good Porn Star

Give Me One Good Porn Star; Or, Why Religion is Bad for Human Beings by [...]

The Jaws of Life

by Rick Gilbert   A small vice held a two foot by two foot piece of [...]

Getting Half Way Up The Mountain

Suddenly, my legs stopped working. A moment later, painful cramping. I couldn’t move. Not one [...]

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Music Store Clerk

It must have been around 1910 when sixteen year-old Baby Dodds got tired of banging [...]

The John Rose Farewell

Setting in time and place  The date was September 10, 1953. I was in the [...]

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Jazz, Rock and Roll, and the Revolution in Psychotherapy, 1950-1975

Background-Why now?  Writing this dissertation was one of the highlights of my life, a real [...]

PowerSpeaking Book

Introduction  From passion to technology, from soul to strategy’it’s all here. In PowerSpeaking© : How [...]

Mexico: San Miguel Writers Conference

So long, Rick

“So long, Rick” by Rick Gilbert Snot was running down her face. My mother’s eyes [...]

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Speaking Up

Speaking Up: Surviving Executive Presentations by Rick Gilbert   You are a smart, high-potential middle [...]

Why I write

I Have a Dream

“I Have a Dream” was The Greatest Improv in the History of Speech Communication Martin Luther [...]

Don’s Final Barbershop Song

  Dear friend Don Schaller was just a few days from death. Don had been [...]

Don’s memorial

  Saying Good-bye Saying good-bye to you Don is saying good-bye to a lingering sigh. [...]

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