Chair Power

Foreboding We are all too familiar with this place, this home of our fears. We wish that weren’t so. Even though chairs are not assigned to any of us we nevertheless choose to sit in the same chair each time we come here. The chairs are all the same, a dull...

Don’t Try to Remember

Forget it   People often complain about their poor memory. They might tell you “I wish my memory were better. Maybe there is something wrong with me and that is why I forget all sorts of things.” I remind people that it would be even more helpful,...

Act Your Way to a Slimmer You

My friends and my wife think I have lost my mind. I also think I have lost it but not this time. My kids were kinder. They laughed at what I did. My 24 year daughter grinned when I told my plans to try and lose weight. She said, Todd, she never calls me Dad,...

Shame (part 1 and 2)

Part 1 Prof. Larry Putnam of Life Sciences Division of the University of California, Berkeley was blunt. “Lots of young researcher on the faculty can feel a certain amount of desperation in their attempts to get tenure. None of them did what you did which was...

Who is Willie?

Sheriff Carl said this but denied that he did. “I am here to protect our Logan community so… If they don’t look like us, smell like us, talk like us, and if nothing about them is like us then I don’t like them and I want to make sure they are...