Columns

As of this edition, I will be changing the format of my column ‘Big Mike and Friends’ to a Q&A...

As a person in our San Diego community who has worked in the food and beverage industry for over 42...

When the history of our national LGBTQ+ civil rights movement and the long fight for equality is remembered, it will...

When people are considering psychotherapy/counseling, they usually ask me “How long do you think it will take?” People who have...

Happy New Year. As we embark on 2021, there are unknowns and challenges ahead of us, but also opportunities. January...

2020 is finally over! What an unbelievable year. Our community saw more hate from the Trump administration rolling back protections...

PTSD is a psychological term for “post-traumatic stress disorder.” I consider PTSD to be the emotions we feel after we...

When I first moved to San Diego, over a half century ago, our city and region was a conservative right-wing...

Well, we did it. We made it through one of the most challenging years I have ever experienced in my...

The end of the pandemic is in sight. The Pfizer vaccine has been approved by the FDA and the first...

Wow, November 2020 surely became a month of ups and downs. If your choice of president did or did not...

Finally, as 2020 shuffles to a close, it looks like (some) things are getting better: No more Trump and his...

It’s December! And while I know we are all eager to turn the page on 2020, I also know this...

In the 1980s, when the AIDS epidemic first broke, there was an immediate move to close all the bathhouses down....

We’re in uncharted territory, brothers and sisters. None of us has ever lived through a pandemic before. And the news...