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Once while soaking up the beauty of Taos, New Mexico, and the surrounding mountains, valleys, rivers, Rio Grande gorge, aspens, wild flowers, desert terrain, thunder and lightening storms, red rocks and wild skies of Georgia O’Keefe’s and many peoples’ ancient homes, I read Dr. Abraham Verghese’s book “The Tennis Partner.” This is a powerful story […]

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About this blog: I am a LMFT specializing in couples counseling and grief and have lived in Silicon Valley since 1969. I'm the president of Connect2 Marriage Counseling. I worked in high-tech at Apple,...