The more information that comes to light about the Duggar family, the more it demonstrates how not to be a parent. They’re the worst of role-models, demonstrating such terrible parental traits as denial, repression, abandonment and hypocrisy, but it’s their failure to deal with serious abuse issues involving their children that leads them to be […]
I’ve been reading some pretty horrifying posts this week about Amazon’s business culture. There was the front page New York Times article, written by Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld, a fascinating op-ed piece in the Times by Joe Nocera, and many compelling letters to the editor, responding to the original article. Kantor and Streitfeld describe […]
When I was a kid, I always got a bit stressed, just before the beginning of September. It was hard for me to shift gears from lazy summer mode into intense, driven school mode. Eventually, I figured out a strategy for making the transition as smooth as possible, and having a great school year. By […]
Charlize Theron just broke off her engagement with Sean Penn. That’s not news in Hollywood, as relationships between actors or other celebrities seem to have an inevitable, early expiration date. What was interesting was the news that Charlize engaged in ghosting, which is the act of completely cutting off contact with the other person. In […]
I found it very interesting to read this week that a group of vigilantes recently hacked the Ashley Madison website. For those who aren’t familiar with it, Ashley Madison is a site for married people who want to cheat. Their motto, in fact, is: “Life is short. Have an affair.” Millions of email addresses of […]
I’ve gotten a lot of feedback for my recent post about the addictive quality of Tinder and today’s hook-up culture. I wrote it in response to Nancy Jo Sales’ article in the September 2015 edition of Vanity Fair. I wanted to follow up with some ideas about what it is that drives young people to […]
I read with interest Tinder’s recent Twitter rant the about the September 2015 Vanity Fair article, Tinder and the Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse, by Nancy Jo Sales. I wondered whether it was an example of extreme defensiveness brought on by Ms Sales hitting the nail too firmly on the head, or perhaps, as some […]
Maybe you’ve felt them yourself; the painful, recurrent pangs of guilt? Maybe you’ve wanted to do something but stopped yourself, because you were held back by guilt? Maybe you’ve felt compelled to do something that you didn’t really want to do, because guilt made you do it? If this is you, or someone you know, […]
I read a story on-line this week about a 6-year-old boy named Jaden Hayes, who lost both his parents and decided to do something positive, rather than give in to his grief. He’s going around his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, giving people a small toy and then asking for a smile, which he then rewards […]
When I was 25 years old and early on in my medical training, I got a phone call from my mom one day. With no preamble, she blurted out, “She’s gone!” At first, I didn’t know who Mom was talking about. Then she said the name. It was Esther, my infant niece. Inconceivably, Esther had […]
