Is It Better To Love Or Be Loved?
In an ideal world we would love and be loved in equal measure. Unfortunately, we often love someone who doesn’t love us as much and in the same way in return. It can be heartbreaking experience. They...
View ArticleDo We Need Quiet Now More than Ever?
Are there any truly quiet places left, free of the din of all of the noises made by humans? There are so many more unnatural noises than there ever were before. We have all our beeping, buzzing,...
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The Choice is Yours
What's your perspective on the beginning of a new week -- AKA the usual time those of us with a dieter's mentality decide whether or not to continue with and/or recommit to our dieting and healthy...
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The Need for Less and More
If, as they say, cleanliness (and clutter-free living) is next to godliness, then my future is bright.It’s always been appealing to me to pare down unimportant things and filter out the excess...
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Why Doctors Must Learn to Tolerate Uncertainty
...Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason... —John Keats, Letter to George and Tom Keats...
View ArticleInfant Sleep and the Crying-It-Out Debate
What parents should do when an infant repeatedly wakes up and cries at night has been a passionate and timeless debate. Behavioral sleep interventions, which can vary from relatively milder techniques...
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Life after Life
When my husband Rick was diagnosed with fatal gastric cancer 14 months ago, I suffered a massive heart break. But since then, my heart has been slowly repairing itself. It still has a way to go, but in...
View ArticleOvercome Any Obstacle
I've discovered that the adage, "where there's a will there's a way" is backwards. It's more accurate to say, "where there's a way (that is doable), there's a will" to take action. One of my favorite...
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Are You Assertive Enough? Too Assertive? A Self-Assesment
Not that long ago, to stay reasonably employed, you only had to do what you're told. But today, alas, mainly the assertive thrive. Of course, you don’t want to be too aggressive.Are you sufficiently...
View ArticleAttention
On my son Narayan’s sixth birthday, I gave him an ant farm. He spent hours watching with fascination as the little creatures magically created their network of tunnels. He even named several, and...
View ArticleDon’t Let Your Head Attack Your Heart
I had been planning a dinner party for weeks. There were twenty people coming, some family, some friends, to celebrate my wife Eleanor’s birthday. I designed a ritual for her: my goal was to create a...
View ArticleWhat's Wrong With Inequality
Inequality as a moral and political issue came to prominence in the United States three years ago during the Occupy movement. After a retreat from the public stage, it returned this spring with the...
View ArticleObsessed with Counting Calories? There's an App for That!
It had to happen. Once digital electronic calorie tracking became available on the smartphone, uncounted numbers of diet-obsessed women began fixating over how many calories they were putting into...
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5 Insights You Should Know About Creative Pairs
I wanted to read this new book about creative pairs because working as part of a team of two is so alien to me personally. I thought maybe only gregarious extroverts worked well creatively with others....
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Self Care and a Pink Purse
It all started with an innocuous pink purse. From the second that I clicked “complete purchase” my stomach sunk. The negative thoughts crept in—thoughts of what I could have bought for my kids with...
View Article14 Articles In One! From One-Liners to One-Paragraphers
600 articles ago, when I started blogging I thought I might run out of ideas, but they keep coming. I capture ideas first as notes on my Facebook wall. Here are 14 recent ones, each a micro-article. If...
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MOOCs: A Great (and Cheap) Way to Learn
Regular readers of this blog know that I believe that the most cost- and time-efficient way to learn is to read articles (largely emanating from Google searches) perhaps guided by a mentor.I view the...
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Choosing a Romantic Partner
One aspect in choosing a romantic partner is the weight we give to bad (negative) and good (positive) qualities. Although we tend to focus more on the partner's bad qualities at the stage of choosing a...
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