Secrets

A fragment on secrecy and shame.

Hypothesis: most of us have at least one or two things that we really really don’t want someone to know. (Google and the NSA could confirm this.) Some secrets are shameful (like the ones I carried around for years). Some…

[Note: I don’t often write about politics. Today, I am, for just a moment.] Parents keep things from their kids. In a healthy family, most of those things aren’t secrets – things which the kids aren’t permitted to know, but…

Privacy is good, secrets are bad, at least for me. There’s a 12-step saying – when you’re doing well, your addict is doing pushups in your basement. For me, secrets are a sure-fire way to strengthen “my addict.” Worse, they’re…