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Home Away From Home

05/12/2025
An opinion on the op-ed page of the January 22, 2014 New York Times by...
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How Do We Know Who We Are?

05/12/2025
I recently watched Julianne Moore's moving and beautiful performance in "Still Alice."  She portrayed the...
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Letting Irrational Control You

05/12/2025
I have helped many people who are bothered and consumed by trying to make sense...
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Listening Revisited

05/12/2025
Recently I was reading a number of studies about physicians listening to their patients.  On...
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Are We Our Brother’s [sister’s] Keeper?

05/12/2025
Recently there have been two more killings that have been justified by claims of self-defense...
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Fewer 2-5 Year Olds Are Obese!

05/12/2025
Sabrina Tavernise reported in The New York Times on February 26, 2014 about a recent...
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Facing Unemployment Can Kill You!

05/12/2025
I recently read about a study that improved on previous single country studies that showed...
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It is Only With the Heart That One Can See Rightly, What is Essential is Invisible to the Eye

05/12/2025
In the Little Prince by St. Exupery, the fox tells the little prince his [the...
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What Wolves Teach Us About It Means to Be an Alpha Male

05/12/2025
An OP-ED piece in the June 6, 2015 New York Times by Carl Safina sheds...
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“Inside Out” Gets It Right!

05/12/2025
I recently saw the movie "Inside Out" with my wife and two of our friends....
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