Anxiety What If . . . Every Moment You Experienced Today, You Had to Do Over Again? Dateline: Dallas, Texas, 9 p.m. I’m standing in front of the yummy shrimp display at Eatzi’s gourmet take-takeout, my over-educated and under-used brain caught in a dilemma. Should I sacrifice and buy only four …
Personal Note: I wrote The Mercy because what I believed only happened in other families—bad families with serious problems—happened in our family. I didn’t want to write a professional article or another non-fiction book. I wanted to share what it feels like. Maybe through this story one person will …
We accept the facts when it comes to climate change, so why not fight back at scam industries built on our staying insecure about our bodies? Many times I go to lunch with beautiful scary-smart women and somewhere over the salad comes the ‘new plan,’ the ‘how I should make …
Complaining is Bad for Your Health: “Eat it the Way It Is!” Back in graduate school I had a course in behavior modification design. The first assignment was to set up a plan to alter a self-destructive behavior of our own. Of course, the instructor did not recognize that, just …
Doggie Ball Toxic? Something to think about and maybe a reason not to eat snow cones that glow in the dark. No scientific experiment here, just kinda scary. I was playing crazy bounce-and-catch with the angel dog when a neon pink ball went over the side of the upper terrace …
Miss Me? I’m Not That Crazy! The availiability of putting our words on the fabulous World Wide Web has left each of us with the impression that we are much more important than we actually are. We are even taught tricks to bubble up hit statistics and further over-estimate our …
Bendicio Man Having seen Bendicio (Blessing) man several times in different cities, I asked what he was about. He answered: “Love” . . . in at least eight languages. He took time to tell this silly tourist type scurrying across Mexico City’s grand Reforma–patterned after the Avenue …
