Eddies Along the River

During his 3rd year of retirement, Michael Sullivan was coping with the uncertainties and open time afforded by the sequestering of 2020's pandemic. He found himself surrounded by absences. Friends, classes, travel, and the spices of life were not easily available. With vacant time and shadows all around, he began looking back at memories that seemed to shape his early development. The consistent subject of these explorations is of a mid-twentieth century, heterosexual man of Irish-German heritage, born and raised in the Midwest.
In his maturity, he earned a PhD in Counseling Psychology from the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. He spent much of his professional life treating people with severe mental illnesses. He has been married to his wife Deborah for nearly 50 years and they have a daughter, Mara. They live in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota.