A Break from Chaos

A Break from Chaos

  Today I attended a lecture on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy given by UTPB’s Assistant Professor in Counseling, Robert Zeglin, Ph.D., LPC, NCC.  It was last week that I registered for the lecture, and I remember thinking that I’d not studied REBT in-depth,...
Martin Luther King Day and Being Together

Martin Luther King Day and Being Together

I’ve always liked Dr. King, even as a kid in elementary school, when I didn’t really understand the impact of his life on twentieth century America and the world.  Little did I realize in Mrs. Smith’s class in the fifth grade that King’s death had come just about a...
Yogurt Stains and My Lack of Cool

Yogurt Stains and My Lack of Cool

I don’t have my shit together. What a crass way to start of a blog post, right? I’ll add to the previous statement—I’m not under any illusions that I have my shit together. If I was listening to someone while in the counseling seat, my first questions would be, “What...
Burritos and Life Lessons

Burritos and Life Lessons

Not long ago I entered the Taco Villa drive through at an Odessa location with the intention of getting a bean and cheese burrito to tide me over for a couple of hours. Being fairly cheap, and at that moment needing fairly cheap food prepared quickly, reliable Tex-Mex...