Book excerpt: The story of Thelma Blumberg, a school psychologist in both the Baltimore City School and the Jewish school system. She recounts her daily struggles and hurtles with her emotionally challenged son, as she deals with a constant barrage of problems from parents and children from the inner city to the suburbs. Includes her work with children in Kiryat Arba, the twin city of Hebron, on the West Bank of Israel, who have been traumatized by the unrelenting war between the Palestinian and Israeli cultures.