Stan Goldberg
Website: http://stangoldbergwriter.com
I am the author of LESSONS FOR THE LIVING: STORIES OF FORGIVENESS, GRATITUDE AND COURAGE AT THE END OF LIFE. It was awarded the London Book Festival's Grand Prize for best new international book of 2009 I'm a Professor Emeritus of Communicative Disorders at San Francisco State University. For over 25 years I taught, provided therapy, researched, and published in the area of information processing, change, loss, and end of life. l've published six books, written numerous articles and delivered over 100 lectures and workshops throughout the United States, Latin America and Asia. In 2009 I was named by the Hospice Volunteer Association as “Volunteer of the Year.” I also consult on issues of personal, institutional, and corporate change. My published magazine articles, essays, and poems have received numerous national and international writing awards.
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Understanding chronic and terminal illnesses: A guide for healthy people
Submitted by Stan Goldberg on 2010-05-03 (7 views)
A client who was dying once said to me, "Every day I feel as if I'm on one of those exercise boards that rest on a ball. Just when I steady the damn thing, it starts moving and I'm struggling again to balance myself. Why don't people realize that's what ... Read more (1167 words)
Memories: A call to reconnect
Submitted by Stan Goldberg on 2010-05-03 (63 views)
Did you ever have a memory that rode into your consciousness on the back of a passing odor, object, or random word? Something you desperately tried to forget? But despite your best efforts, it still seeped through your emotional protective wall as if the wall was made of cheesecloth.
I knew ... Read more (537 words)
Top 10 insults for old people
Submitted by Stan Goldberg on 2010-05-03 (666 views)
Incredible things are heard when nobody thinks you're listening. Recently in downtown San Francisco I was walking behind a twenty-something-year-old couple. They were forced to reduce their fast pace as they approached an elderly man slowly walking in the same direction. Unable to go around him because foot traffic was ... Read more (900 words)
Prostate cancer research, funding, and male vanity
Submitted by Stan Goldberg on 2010-04-27 (27 views)
As someone who's living with prostate cancer, I applauded Louis Gossett Jr.'s testimony in Congress on the importance of prostate cancer research funding. If congress was listening, maybe I'll live long enough for something else to kill me.But according to the American Cancer Society statistics, I shouldn't hold my breath.Fifty ... Read more (632 words)
Dying stands logic on its head
Submitted by Stan Goldberg on 2010-04-27 (32 views)
We often harshly judge behaviors we don't understand. They can involve someone's ingratitude, anger, or actions we label as foolish. I recently was guilty of the same thing here in the San Francisco Bay area with one of my hospice patients.Her ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig's ... Read more (617 words)
Faces of Grief
Submitted by Stan Goldberg on 2010-04-27 (26 views)
Although there are many approaches to grief counseling, most focus directly on the grief we experience over the death of a loved one. But what about the unexplainable, and often embarrassing grief experienced over the death of someone we never knew? The pop star whose life was unexpectedly ended, the ... Read more (354 words)
The threat of behavioral icebergs
Submitted by Stan Goldberg on 2010-04-27 (20 views)
More than 10 years ago, I saw a black and white photograph by Richard Avedon that I still vividly remember. It was taken of a young boy in 1947 in Sicily. He was in the foreground smiling broadly and wearing a suit that was too short in the arms and ... Read more (348 words)
When the ground shakes: A need for structure
Submitted by Stan Goldberg on 2010-04-27 (14 views)
I was concerned when I came home and couldn't find my mother. The back of the house has a steep incline off the deck that leads to a forested area. When I saw that the gate leading down the stairs was open, concern turned to panic. At that time she ... Read more (396 words)
What's wrong with my underwear? A guide to successful aging
Submitted by Stan Goldberg on 2010-04-27 (12 views)
Since both my wife and I have hearing problems, when we speak to each other in different rooms, our conversations can become the basis for a sit-com on aging. I was rummaging around in a kitchen cabinet while Wendy was in the living room. "Is that old wok under here?" I ... Read more (423 words)
Has the music stopped? Life after a loss
Submitted by Stan Goldberg on 2010-04-27 (19 views)
When a sleep disorder forced me to retire at 57, and six months later I developed prostate cancer, I reacted to life as if the music had stopped. My misguided belief that life should always rest on an even keel appeared in the literature more than one thousand years ago ... Read more (408 words)