Starting a Busy Week!
2020-01-27 – I’m working on an attitude fix. I used to say: “OMG! I have a too-busy week. How am I going to get through it?” But then I get […]
Tag Archives: psychology
Who Side Was She On?
2020-01-20 – One year from today, the darkness lifts . . . or it gets worse. I’m voting for lifts. But today I’m thinking about how this sort of thing […]
Spanish Hamburgers Are Female!
2020-01-16 – If you think we have problems with gender in English, try Spanish. In English, we are struggling to decide on a gender-neutral pronoun (and seemingly settling on “they”). […]
Gender Is Located in Three Places
2019-03-04 – Gender is located in three places: between your legs, between your ears, and between you and me. There’s a fourth place where people like to situate gender: in […]
It’s Not the #MeToo Movement That’s Giving Men a Hard Time
2018-10-11 – If anyone is giving men and boys a hard time, it’s not the #MeToo movement. It’s the creeps who say that it is normal for men and boys to […]
Are Our Fears Driving Politics?—Or Is Politics Driving Our Fears?
2018-07-12 – What are your greatest fears? What causes you worry? What stresses you out? That was the question posed in this week’s weight-loss webinar sponsored by my health plan. […]
Political Anger Does Not “Purge” Injustice—It “Rehearses” Injustice
2018-07-05 – One thing that extremists from both the right and left agree on is the view that anger is essential. That the expression of that anger leads to catharsis. That […]
LGBTQUIA+ . . . ROYGBIV
2018-06-11 – Roy G. Biv is a mnemonic for the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Not all languages have words for these exact colors. […]
Emehrgency! Everybody to Get from Street!
2018-02-22 – “Emehrgency! Everybody to get from street!” That’s what the accidental Russian invaders said in the 1966 movie “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.” In that movie […]
The Risks and Benefits of the Insane Tweets of Donald J. Trump
2018-01-04 – So many tweets! Each one can keep you spinning for days. I usually try to stay away from @realDonaldTrump. But one of his crazy tweets stuck in my […]
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