It takes a lot of courage to walk into a therapist’s office. Many people think of asking for help for months or years before they reach out. Finally, you’ve taken that first step. Congratulations! Now, once you’re inside, how can you make the most of your experience? How can you make sure you are getting what you truly need?

Buy an iPad, download a $300 app, and hang it up on the wall of your shul. Or, at least, that’s what Moshe Berman wants you to do.

If parenting were a job, it would be the worst job ever. Long hours, bad pay, no recognition. Entry level parenting includes perks like spit-up and stinky diapers; a tenured position earns you criticism and the cold shoulder. Severance comes in the form of requests for money and brief holiday visits.

Sights and sounds from yesterday’s Fordham School of Social Service commencement: Hundreds of graduates stream in to the pompous approval of a brass quintet and the raucous reactions of a proud crowd. This is pomp and circumstance at its best.

No disrespect to sports fans, but sports discussions are not known for their wealth of theoretic wisdom. Certainly, sports are great fun, and the pull of professional sports has even the attention of the Wall Street Journal. Articles on sports are full of analysis and postgame hindsight, but rarely philosophical insight.