People who haven’t been in psychotherapy often ask: “What does a psychotherapist do? What happens in psychotherapy? 

The best way to raise financially responsible children is to teach them cause and effect.

Increasingly, it looks like either Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney will be the Republican alternative to the horrendous President Obama. Anyone who's not a liberal already understands what's wrong with Romney. In the first of a series, I'll examine Gingrich's proposals, as articulated on his website. Today the focus is health care.

Gingrich: "Make health insurance more affordable and portable by giving Americans the choice of a generous tax credit or the ability to deduct the value of their health insurance up to a certain amount and by allowing Americans to purchase insurance across state lines, increasing price competition in the industry."

Where I live, in a tiny town on the Atlantic coast of tiny Delaware, I'm surrounded by the most liberal of Democrats. It's like a mini-San Francisco of the east here. This gives me some good insight into what liberals are thinking these days. Here's what I hear the most: "I am very disappointed by Obama. I know things aren't good. But what does the Republican side have to offer? I could live with Mitt Romney, though."