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Advice You Probably Won't Hear in a Commencement Address

I've given only one commencement address, at Columbia College (MO.) Perhaps because it was my first, it was fairly conventional.

On reflection, I wish I had been brave enough to give different advice. The graduates have and will hear plenty of conventional exhortations but perhaps not the ones I offer in  my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Life-and-Death Dilemmas

My PsychologyToday.com article today is a short-short story that looks at one man's life-and-death confrontation with the truly  least among us and the bigger ethical dilemmas that encounter triggered.

Musings of a Grumpy Old Man

I worry about the how-to article's pontification and aridity. So in some of my recent PsychologyToday.com articles, I've genre-bended: I've attempted to embed a psychological issue within a short-short story, for example, Unhinged and Should You Give Up on Finding Mr/Ms Right?
 
Today's offering looks at a man's confrontation with his aging and being out of step with the times.

Should You Home-School Your Child?

A Google search today on the term, "closing the achievement gap" yielded 363,000 results. Indeed, many public schools now focus on low achievers.

That's one reason that many parents of average and above-average-achieving children home-school them. That can be especially enticing because private school tuition can, in high-cost areas, reach $35,000 a year. 

So it's not surprising that the number of home-schooled U.S. kids has more than doubled from 850,000 in 1999 to 1.77 million in 2011, the most recent year studied.

But what about your child? Should you consider home-schooling? Perhaps the internal debate I wrote as my PsychologyToday.com article today will help clarify.

In Defense of The Artist's Life

In previous posts, I've denigrated the artist's life. To restore a measure of balance while not being pollyannish, in my PsychologyToday.com article today, I take my best shot at describing the life of a typical artist who's not making much money but is glad she has chosen The Artist's Life. 

My Honest Response to an Aspiring Journalist

An aspiring journalist wrote to me asking for an "in" into a journalism job.

I posted my response as my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Life and Death

A silver lining in being a lifelong hypochondriac is that I've spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about life and death. In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I share my thoughts.

Does Pet Therapy Help?

Most people, especially animal lovers, believe that animals can heal us.

But what does more rigorous analysis suggest? And where might animal-assisted interventions (AAI) be of greatest value?

To answer those question, on PsychologyToday.com, I interview two eminents.

"I'm Tired": A short-short story about an average person's aging.

Sooner or later, we all lose energy and drive. Now what? I explore that in a short-short story that's my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Should You Vacation in Some Faraway Place?

We're getting to that time of year when we have to decide what do during our vacation days.

Should you take a staycation? A quickie car trip to the relatives? Or fly off to some far-flung place? 

Perhaps the internal debate I offer today on PsychologyToday.com  will provide a bit of clarity.