Stress: the Cosco Virgin Gives It Up for Chocolate Bar!

Okay, let’s get one thing straight right off. The disaster was not all my fault. Today is a very windy day. On an even playing field with no wind, I could have saved the others. A lack of furniture forced me out of my cave and into the new world, …

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Those Stress Relief Advice Givers are Just Making Stuff Up

Stress. Some of These Advice Givers are Just Making Stuff Up Dateline: Gold’s Gym International Branch Office.  A couple of Texas basketball players train here in the summer. Makes the treadmill more fun. Stress Relief Advice for the Holiday Season How to steam a turkey in a mop bucket, how …

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Addiction, It Takes Two…Stress and Addiction, Final Episode

Dateline: San Antonio River Walk Patio Branch Office. Jennifer Lopez stood on the nearby bridge during the making of Selena. If you are new the story of Mr. and Mrs. Travis, Catch up with Episode One, Episode Two, and Episode Three. When the next football season came around, Mrs. Travis …

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Stress: Mobile Communications Have Made the World a Village and I Am Its Idiot

Stress: Mobile Communications Have Made the World a Village and I Am the Village Idiot Part One: Anxiety and How Your World, Bad or Good, Is a Projection of Your Thoughts Dateline: Flight American Airlines 859 Austin to LA. There are a hundred or so people on this flight. We …

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Stress and Doing Your Own Thinking

Immediate Stress Relief: Join a Gang… Dateline:  Stress in a New Mexico Maximum Security Prison, via television. Where would any of us end up if–during those needy barely adolescent years—we had no sense of self and no sense of a future?  And we were offered both for the mere orice of …

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Stress and Ladies’ Room Etiquette

Stress and Ladies’ Room Etiquette Dateline:  Ladies’ room.  Big Rig Stress Management Truck Stop, Sonora, Texas. More thoughts on anxiety and fusion, that is, when the “togetherness force,” the push to go along with the group is winning over the “individuality force,” the push to operate separately from the emotional …

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