Dr. T. and his patient C.R.

Mar 29, 2025 | Stories

Liz Wheeler, Esq.says, “I’m confused. Nothing is what it seems, whatever that means.” Her colleague,  Larry Stone, Esq. responds, “I agree. I guess we have to continue to be confused.” As you walk into the lobby of the Collins Professional Building, there is a huge...

Chairs

Mar 26, 2025 | Stories

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

Mar 26, 2025 | Stories

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, even...

Act Your Way to a Slimmer You

Mar 26, 2025 | Stories

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...

Shame (part 1 and 2)

Mar 26, 2025 | Stories

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