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Hello friendly readers. It’s Sasha, back at the job once again. Alpha Mom says she’s too angry to write a decent post and asked me to cover for her this week. She likes that I stay collected and calm in … Read More
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Hello friendly readers. It’s Sasha, back at the job once again. Alpha Mom says she’s too angry to write a decent post and asked me to cover for her this week. She likes that I stay collected and calm in … Read More
Or Can You? When I was in grade school, my classmates and I watched one afternoon as a small horde of fragile-seeming former students creaked their way into our elementary school and down to the cafeteria. Most had canes as … Read More
Subtitled: Yanny and Laurel Redux Did you get caught up in the Yanny or Laurel frenzy? It seemed to be the top feature story across the nation. Yes, that link will let you listen in on what half the world heard … Read More
Here I am two weeks out from my next blog post and I can’t decide what it’ll be on. I feel like I’m staring at a restaurant menu. Whether everything looks great or nothing looks good, I’m having a hard … Read More
What’s the most important question to ask when you feel blue? The answer, from neuroscientist and UCLA researcher Alex Korb, (also the author of The Upward Spiral) is simple: What am I grateful for? What am I grateful for? Gratitude, it turns out, boosts the … Read More
Two weeks ago, in Cultivating Empathy: My Journey to Understand, I shared this fairly common definition of empathy: the ability to walk in the shoes of another person, to live their life momentarily, to understand the world inside their head. … Read More
Diane Ackerman wrote a lovely (delightful actually) book called Cultivating Delight. It was a memoir of sorts, but, subtitled A Natural History of My Garden, it was also a garden book. I’m pulling from that title for today’s post, Cultivating Empathy: … Read More
Last week we celebrated SPRING, the season of reconciliation and renewal, that time of year that brings the promise of better times to come, new life, the flowering of that which has been asleep — life’s good stuff. But each … Read More
I was sorting through old papers in my office a few weeks ago. Here you go; take a look. I know; it’s a mess. But forget that part. This is not a post on clutter and cleanliness. … Read More