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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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 Up Against Charisma and Promises

Stress Management, Up Against a Charismatic Foe Can You Think for Yourself when under Stress? Dateline:  Oops. When the trial of James Arthur Ray–charged with being responsible for the sweat lodge deaths of three of his “students” went into indefinite recess, I dropped the ball on those Young Americans in …

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“It’s So Easy, An Adult Can Do It”…Cable Guy Meets the Keystone Cops, Pt.2

Dateline:  Mimi’s Branch World Headquarters Cable Guy Meets the Keystone Cops, Part 2 Set-up:  If you missed part one of the Cable Guy and the Keystone Cops, go back one. Okay, now, you recall that I have just been assured by Cable Phone Help Guy, Matthew, that switching from Time Warner Webmail …

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