
I like to read books written by Nobel Prize winners. I figure they know things I do not. Mostly I read books by individuals who won the Nobel Prize in…
Read moreI like to read books written by Nobel Prize winners. I figure they know things I do not. Mostly I read books by individuals who won the Nobel Prize in…
Read moreI interviewed three young adults who had each made serious suicide attempts as teens. The attempts included taking an overdose of drugs, jumping off a cliff, and self-cutting. All three…
Read moreA person can learn much from observing others, even fictional others. I had that thought when I watched a TV show based on a true story. At the end of a series of psychopathic…
Read moreIt is a good thing that my high school buddies were not drug users. No one ever encouraged me to use drugs. Being highly influenceable, I might have gone along….
Read moreI have had an urge lately to talk tough. I keep on the tip of my tongue several tough-guy phrases. Here is one: “You talking to me?” I plan to…
Read moreAustralian schools don’t smack pupils anymore. As years pass, fewer and fewer parents smack their children. I was never punished at all as a child, except that my mother tried…
Read moreAmerican researchers Robin Kowalski and Annie McCord asked a large number of workers who were at least 30 years old what advice they would give to their younger selves. The…
Read moreTen years ago I went with my three brothers to a Mexican restaurant in a small town near where we had lived as children. I ordered a tostada, a stiff,…
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