Charles Silberstein with Laura Roosevelt
On My Mind: A safe harbor in a storm
Imagine a young Islander whom I will call Becca. She was stationed in Afghanistan, saw her buddies killed, one right next to her. On...
On My Mind: A newfound awareness of death
“Charlie, you have had several near-death experiences. When that happens, you come back reborn. You are a different person. You need to re-establish your...
On my mind: Being a hospital patient
Last month, I had a middle-of-the-night dream that turned out to be prophetic: there was an intruder in my house, and he wanted to...
On My Mind: Friendship
Most people think of loneliness as a painful state of mind. They may not realize that it is also bad for one’s health. Loneliness...
On my mind: Secrets
Though she kept it a secret from her mother and grandparents, on a typical night, a 17-year-old Martha’s Vineyard High School student was a...
On My Mind: Children of alcoholics and dysfunctional families
Tolstoy famously wrote that “all happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” No doubt each troubled family is...
On My Mind: Why I have changed my byline
My wife approached me as I was dressing for work, and told me that she thought it was time that she give up the...