Last week my son wanted to play hooky from kindergarten. As I was getting him ready for school, he said, "Mommy, my stomach hurts," trying to look as pathetic as possible. I had a feeling that the problem wasn't his stomach, but might have been connected with the fact that my husband was in the hospital recovering from shoulder replacement... Read more
You may have heard that writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide in September. The author of several critically acclaimed (although "rapturously acclaimed" might be more accurate) books and essays hanged himself in his home at the age of 46. Apparently he had suffered from severe depression for over two decades. Antidepressants, two... Read more
Why is your psychiatrist prescribing a particular drug for you or someone in your family? Is it because it's the most effective? Or could it be because he or she just attended a conference at which a leading psychiatrist touted the benefits of the drug? Is is possible that your psychiatrist should be sending you to a psychologist for talk therapy... Read more
People crave community. They will create a community around a shared hobby, like sewing or model railroads, or around something more weighty such as the struggle against an addiction. Online communities in particular fill a need for people who don't have the time to get together in person or perhaps are not geographically near enough like-minded... Read more
Wipes are one of mankind's greatest inventions. You know, those things that pop up out of a container like Kleenex and come in a lot of different varieties. There are the ones for cleaning baby bottoms (and faces/hands). Then there are the actual cleaning ones that you use to clean your bathroom or kitchen. Of course, now you have wipes for things... Read more
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