Struggle for Self – Creativity Out of Angst

Just when you thought you knew someone. Reading the papers at the time of his death and his children’s later books about him, I had placed John Cheever in a category: Difficult, closeted, alcoholic artist, troubled by lack of success, and struggling to stay on top when it appeared – a man who wrote beautifully […]

Cool Seal of Approval despite Being An Adult

In my 55th year. Since my recent birthday I cry a bit. Not always unhappy tears. Sometimes it’s just the realization that I have made it this far in good health and the world has not ended, the house and family are safe, the world is maddeningly, predictably predictable. My investments were better than most […]

You Slept Badly Last Night; Now I’m In Trouble – The Social and Familial Impact of Sleep Deprivation

You Slept Badly Last Night; Now I’m In Trouble The Social and Familial Impact of Sleep Deprivation Ask the most difficult person in your office how well they slept last night, this week, or what their patterns of sleep have been over a lifetime. Go ahead, it sounds as though you’re really concerned about them. […]

“It is preposterous to infer that something is unknowable simply because it is not known”. Patricia S. Churchland – Touching a Nerve – The Self as Brain.

“It is preposterous to infer that something is unknowable simply because it is not known”. Patricia S. Churchland – Touching a Nerve – The Self as Brain. Offering a theory for a phenomenon is very much different from defining that event and calling it fact. Humans have been “guessing” about reason and cause their entire […]

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