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Does Humor Make You Live Longer?
I just attended a “Laughter is Good Medicine” seminar put on by a local hospital. The speaker pointed to evidence showing that laughing has such good effects as: Reduce blood pressureLower blood...
View ArticleThrowing Empire Out With the Bathwater
Although over at the Daily Show John Oliver has been mocking the 24/7 press coverage of the birth of the next royal nightly, saying that"Finally, we have a member of the royal family that actually has...
View Article47 Attributes of A Midlife Mom's BFF on Her Birthday
1. She shows up.2. She is excellent in a crisis.3. Despite often thrumming with anxiety about her own life, she offers deep calm in yours.4. She does lifecycle events like nobody else:5. She makes the...
View ArticleThe Trouble With Houseguests
Benjamin Franklin famously said that guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. Many of us are inclined to agree. I myself recently struggled to share my space and resources with a houseguest....
View ArticleOn Depression: Growing Older and Getting Better
I was thirty-four years old when I had electroshock therapy for a severe and unrelenting depression. I thought I had reached the limits then of what a human being can stand. My psychiatrist reassured...
View ArticleLosing Perspective, Magazines & TV in NYC
I am a native New Yorker - Brooklyn born and raised and Manhattan life as an adult. I love my city. Having the luxury of being a professional in this City has been a mixed bag. The plus is that making...
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Minority Older Adults
We are all born with a lifetime guarantee, except that as Americans it is worth less for people of color than for the white population. People of color live shorter lives by as much as six years.When...
View ArticleDiversity and tatoos
Diversity, this not so new buzz word, takes on many forms. But it always involves the premise that even though we might be very different, in age, skin tone or credentials, we are still equal. And, as...
View ArticleWhen The Boss Claims Credit For Your Work
Even though you think you went to work, you hear playground noises around you. It’s not your mind playing tricks on you. It’s the boss (and co-workers) playing sandbox politics. They claim — in front...
View ArticleOn Being Yourself
1.No one shares your history.Therefore, you are different from all who have ever been or ever will be. 2. To deny your uniqueness is an offense against yourself.To find your uniqueness is a blessing....
View ArticleCall Me
The last couple of weeks we have heard a lot about telephones: Those iPhone electrocutions, and the insidiously increasing incursion into the smartphone market by Chinese companies whose names many of...
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Accidents and the Driver's Brain
On August 8th 1996, my editor-colleague Ruth Holland left her office at the British Medical Association in London and walked the short distance to Euston station, where she boarded the 17.04 train to...
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Spirituality in Sport 2: Golf
A golfing friend told me recently that his wife always called it a silly game. To some that may seem accurate, but to many, rather than ‘spoiled’, as some would have it, “Golf is a long walk enriched”....
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Anger, Fear, and Terrorism
High profile terrorist attacks have had an enormous impact on the modern world. In the wake of 9/11, the US government increased its investment in the “War on Terror” by giving Special Forces the...
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"My brain did it!" How Neuro Talk Dominates Our Conversation
Thanks to the rise of neuroscience, we’re more aware of our brains than we used to be and it’s affecting our everyday language. Where once we used to refer to our minds – “I changed my mind”, “she’s...
View ArticleParents and How Adolescence has Changed Today
It’s very common to hear parents say: “Our kids are growing up differently than in my day, that’s the problem. Adolescence has really changed.” This statement is often made to explain their discomfort...
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On Male Bisexuality -- the Elle interview
“I will dance with anybody. I’ve chased men and women. I like men and women both.” –Boxer Emile Griffith, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 2005. I’m not usually one to linger on obituaries, but this...
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Chaos under Control: Dealing with Moving Anxiety
There is nothing on this godforsaken earth I despise more than moving. Not third-world poverty, not heiress-based reality television, not house centipedes with their creepy little legs. It’s moving....
View ArticleIs Sexting The Same As A Sexual Affair?
Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign has taken a curious turn and captured the attention of the world with his persistent pursuit of sexting strange women. After the initial shock wave had passed, the...
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