Victoria DimitrakopoulosBuck DelventhalOur landlord Buck died suddenly last week. He left his family, close friends and colleagues reeling with grief, and me analyzing — my…Oct 30, 20191Oct 30, 20191
Victoria DimitrakopoulosEmpathic leadership — what an open water swim along the Golden Gate Bridge taught me about…It is a Saturday in October at the crack of dawn. There are three women in the Pacific Ocean, near the south tower of San Francisco’s…Oct 13, 2019Oct 13, 2019
Victoria DimitrakopoulosAn Alcatraz swim from isolation to connection“Jump and swim away fast. 1–2–3- Go!” It’s September 7th, 2019, I’m standing on the edge of the doorway of one of two ferries carrying 600…Sep 11, 20191Sep 11, 20191
Victoria DimitrakopoulosJellyfish and OctopusI used to visualize my brain shaped more or less as a jellyfish: the whole organ up in my cranium, with thin nerves extending to my body…Aug 28, 2019Aug 28, 2019
Victoria DimitrakopoulosThe Human ConditionThis drawing pretty much sums it all up for me. It is fiendishly difficult for humanity to deliver on these two simple needs that every new…Mar 27, 2018Mar 27, 2018
Victoria Dimitrakopoulos“Snakes and Ladders”: the game of psychological evolutionIn the animated movie “The Croodz” set in prehistoric times, a grumpy grandmother hears the definition of a pet (“It’s an animal you don’t…Jun 26, 20171Jun 26, 20171
Victoria DimitrakopoulosWhat was the climate of our childhoods?Most people think of childhoods as either happy or sad, sunny or stormy. That’s probably because most of us think of our own upbringing as…Mar 28, 2017Mar 28, 2017
Victoria DimitrakopoulosThe sad paradox of early childhoodDuring the first months of infants’ lives, caring for them can be a grind: many of us are recovering from a pregnancy, sleepless, socially…Mar 4, 2017Mar 4, 2017
