How can you govern a country in which there are 246 kinds of cheese? Charles de Gaulle Oh, Cheese How I love thee! Besides its varied and great taste, cheese is valued for its portability, long life, and high content of fat, protein, calcium, and phosphorus. Ok. I […]
Everyone has a year-end retrospective. Let’s join that bandwagon. Here is a retrospective on some of the events and studies that highlighted the psychological, scientific and health context of the times. Some events went viral (Item number 1); some studies went relatively unnoticed (as most research articles do). […]
As a psychologist and perhaps as an armchair anthropologist, I really enjoy road trips. I have traveled cross country four times, road-tripped through Canada and the entire continental west coast. I have road-tripped individual states such as Hawaii, Kentucky, North Carolina, and New York. There is much you […]
The Psychology of the gift of Laughter on this Christmas Day “The objective world has vanished and is forgotten, the proprieties and even the presence of others are lost, and the soul is all eye and ear to the one laughable object. Care, trouble, and even […]
Back in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries when individuals more readily shared home spaces, sometimes the pocket was the only personal space people had. Thus, the pocket has historically been a keeper of secrets, lies, and desires along with an accounting of what people possessed. The pocket, […]
In my suburban block, we are now starting to shield ourselves. We are putting up curtains where before we had none. See the back of our houses face a forest. Only deer, raccoons, chipmunks, bluejays and rabbits tend to frequent our yards. Until now, again. See, a mentally […]
I have a simple question for you, dear reader? What does MSM mean to you? When you hear the phrase MSM, do you think of Methylsulfonylmethane? Perhaps, if you are into dietary supplement or have osteoarthritis. More specifically, Methylsulfonylmethane is an organosulfur compound with the formula (CH3)2SO2 that […]
Unspeakable. Disturbing. Heavy heart. Shocking beyond belief. Grief-stricken. Hardiness. Resourcefulness. Mental toughness. Resilience Upon arriving home, I went straight to hugging my little boy. He was fast asleep with his leg pinned up probably dreaming away of that Power Ranger Samurai Megazord Action Figure he wants Santa Claus […]
As I walked to the train station this morning, I had the theme song of Laverne and Shirley just buzzing in my head: “one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Sclemeel, schlemazel, hasenfeffer incorporated.” Huh? That’s right. What the heck was that line about? That lyric probably […]
Are you fearful as we near the end of this calendar year? Does the mere mention of December 21 accelerate your heart-rate as if you were running on a treadmill? Do you foresee a coming apocalypse in the very near future -say in two weeks to be exact? December 21, 2012 has a […]
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