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A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it’s a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero. ~ Tom Angleberger As with any book, let’s start at the beginning, which happens to be my beginning as well. When I was nine years old, I decided there […]
Mothers, fathers, or primary caregivers play an important role as a child’s first teacher. Parents teach their children how to eat with a fork and knife, tie their shoelaces, and brush their teeth. Later, they might teach them how to play basketball, tell time, and bake cookies. For parents who are homeschooling, the list of […]
Think back to a blissful day or night of lovemaking. Hopefully, you experienced physical pleasure and emotional connection. Those are generally the reasons we desire sex. However, you might have also experienced a sense of timelessness, unification of body, mind, and spirit, and at the time of orgasm, a loss of self. In fact, the […]
“This is so ridiculous! Why do I get so attached to some of the men I have sex with, especially when they act like such jerks?” More than a decade ago, this question, posed to me by one of my clients, prompted a light bulb moment. “She said the men I have sex with,” not […]
Doctors are busy people and therefore tend to skim medical journals rather than read them line by line. They look at the abstract at the beginning of a paper and the conclusions at the end, and trust that the conclusions are justified by all that went before. To ensure that this is so, after all, […]
Were you ever doing perfectly well (even wonderfully!), only to have an upsetting interaction, phone call, or email that instantly “ruined” your day? I know I have. I recently received a phone call from my agent telling me that a client was refusing to pay me for a job I had already performed, making all […]
Our animals spend time with us for a reason. They may come as a surprise, handed to us by a friend or lover, or even a truck driver stopped at a stoplight; or they may be hunted out, at animal shelters, pet shops or the Internet—but they are always given to us because we need […]
It has happened to all of us… we are having a conversation with someone and either we’re bored, uninterested, preoccupied, or maybe we don’t like what we’re hearing, so we zone out or look to leave the company of another. Once, while at a business function, I was in the midst of one of these […]
Can I tell you a story? One day, years ago, I was enjoying a hard granola bar. It was crunchy, nutty and delicious. At one point I heard something more than just a crunch. I broke part of my tooth. Being a dentist and having seen countless dental disasters, I feared the worst — losing […]
I have made some horribly bad decisions in my life… I’ll be sharing bad decision #972 … which was, setting up my 87-year-old mom in a hospital bed in my living room, surrounded by security cameras, baby monitors and cordless phones. Mom had dementia, I was trying to keep her safe; I had no idea […]
