In light of the suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain: Most people would rather discuss their heroin addiction than their depression. No one wants to say, “I have a mental illness.” Well, I...
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Many of you know this story, so bear with me as I share this with those who’ve not heard it lately. Like a mother who likes to retell the story of the day her...
Oh God, Thy sea is so great and my boat is so small No one has to look far to find where the sea has swamped the boat. From a recently widowed neighbor to...
“I didn’t feel the lump.” So wrote Patti McCarthy on January 1, 2013. “I was called back for a second mammogram. I like to look at a tech’s face to see if I need...
My curmudgeon credentials are impeccable. When I was a small child, my mother occasionally called me Hard-Hearted Hannah (I don’t remember exactly why, but it was probably deserved). In my early 20s, I worked...
Robert Brown had been organizing the Redding March for Science for a week. “It’s a lot of work,” he laughed, but added that it was wildly successful, estimating the marchers totaled around 400. Hosted...
One of the happier aspects of the internet is meeting people. (No, not stalkers and such.) I mean people you’d probably never meet otherwise, people you like and become friends with. You might share...
I’ve been a little depressed since November 9, like drink-gin-straight-out-of-the-cat-dish depressed, and also a little angry. More than a little angry, actually. I had a fantasy in which modern-day Edward R. Murrows and Joseph...
Dear NBC*: You have proven yourselves completely unable to handle the responsibility of an Olympic broadcast, and yet it appears you will be doing so again in four years. Let me list just a...
“What’s a good guidebook?” or “What guidebook do you use?” After 30-some-odd years of traveling, both by myself and with others, there isn’t any one guidebook that will suit every person’s needs. Make a...
