I am pleased that my children’s picture book , Runaway Piggy Bank, has received this prestigious award
Mom’s thoughtful advice to daughter on wrong boyfriend
Judith Peck, Ed.D.
Sitting opposite my daughter in a luncheonette after finally meeting the surly guy she’d begun living with, I made a little sigh in praise of coffee. As long as we could drink coffee together all was Read more
Loneliness
Judith Peck, Ed.D.
All life’s passions, lofty, lowly, beatific and bodily arise from one source: Loneliness. Think sex, art, sex, charity, shopping… The desire, need, sometimes compulsion to do these things, if taken to their source seems to derive Read more
Happiness Enters through the Senses
Judith Peck, Ed.D.
A feeling of happiness comes not from a state of mind but impression of the senses. Happiness enters from sight, sound, taste, smell or touch and only later is the mind’s awareness. Nature affords Read more
Verbal Abuse
Judith Peck, Ed.D.
I took a stand, told him that heavy hands would not be tolerated, but I did not cry, I did not whine, I did not consider leaving him, at least for more than an overnight. I Read more
Odd Bi-product of Infidelity
Judith Peck, Ed.D.
An unusual bi-product of infidelity is renewed interest in your husband, unless the infidelity is on-going, in which case sex with a spouse has the opposite effect. Whether it was a charged up sense of my Read more
Arielle talks with her college-age daughter about love
Judith Peck, Ed.D.
Arielle talks to her 18-year old daughter, Cara, who has moved from her dorm to live with a brilliant but surly young man in a passage from Seeing in the Dark, Arielle’s Story:
I paused Read more
Soccer Mom Turns Ref
Judith Peck, Ed.D.
With her 11-year old son only wait-listed for the team, Mom was given a choice: they needed referees, volunteers who would go out there in the wind and the chill, weathering not only nature but a Read more
Cloth Diapers
Judith Peck, Ed.D.
Does anyone remember the joy of folding diapers–no I’m serious? Warm and clean from the dryer, all that was expected of you was to lift a bunch, set this down and with two swift folds, set Read more
Age and Youth in Action
Judith Peck, Ed.D.
The dry leaf leaps across the white frozen surface born by a breeze like the brilliant ideas galloping in my head. But then it stops. Is this to collect itself, in need of another push or Read more
Being Nice
Judith Peck, Ed.D.
We Should Try It More Often. Such a blah word, “nice”: a simple, ignorable state of being; a disposition to take little note of; belongs in the category of elevator music.
Being nice to your Read more