Mindy Carlson

How to Help Your Anxious Child

This is an article I wrote that has been published on the site www.AFineParent.com. We all have have moments of anxiety. Here is how to help your child, and even yourself, through those anxious moments. How to Help Your Anxious Child Grow Up to Be a Happy Person by Malinda Carlson. (This article is part…

Mindy Carlson

July 26, 2016

Kids

Afineparent, anxiety, anxiety in children, Anxious child, parenting, positive parenting

The Unexpected Banker: Berkeley Episode 5

Back in the late 1990s the California economy was booming and interest rates were lowering. Refinancing a mortgage was fairly common. (Or so my economist husband informs me…) Apparently our landlord Burt rose of his haze of booze and pot smoke long enough to figure this out, too, and we were given notice to expect…

Mindy Carlson

July 10, 2016

Comedy

Funny stories, The Berkeley Chronicals

The Surreal Nature of Moving

We have moved. Officially. We have given up our keys to our wonderful apartment, tearfully hugged friends who have become family, taken our flight, and are in the United States. I just canceled my Swiss Half-Fare card for the trains. We need to mail our legitimization cards back to some office somewhere now that the…

Mindy Carlson

July 7, 2016

The Swiss Family Carlson

Moving, The Swiss Family Carlson