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May 5, 2014
George Clooney Got Engaged, and We Acted Like Assholes
George Clooney keeps his personal life so private, and held on to his bachelor status for so long, that we, the media-watching world at large, pretty much figured hell would freeze over before he got married again. Plus, that’s what the media told us. Last week’s announcement of Clooney’s engagement caught us off guard, then, …
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April 28, 2014
Mental Health Treatment and Mass Shootings
After each mass shooting in the United States, there are calls for increased gun control, better access to mental health services, or both. Fuelled by emotion, we seek solutions; I have been right in there, too, simultaneously grieving those lost and asking for system changes to prevent reoccurrences. A bit ago, I came across an …
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April 22, 2014
Travel: Happy Earth Day to You
I always forget how amazing it feels to connect to the beauty and wonder of our planet until I get outside for a bit, away from the stores and the cars and the people, and then I notice a bug or a leaf or a flower petal, and time comes to a sudden and crashing …
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April 14, 2014
Pathology of a Daydream: Sluggish Cognitive Tempo
Look out, the sanctity of daydreaming may be on the path to obliteration. There’s a new psychiatric disorder in our midst, folks, and I almost laughed it off until I remembered this country’s propensity to allow pharmaceutical lobbying to turn blatantly ludicrous things into a part of our everyday lives. That, I fear, could be …
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April 7, 2014
Secrets Revealed: My Interview for Lorna Suzuki
As per The Beach Boys, “I’m gettin’ bugged driving up and down this same old strip, I gotta find a new place where the kids are hip.” This week, that place is Lorna Suzuki’s blog. Lorna interviewed me for her “featured author” segment, and I’m super chuffed, especially since it was just two Fridays ago …
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March 31, 2014
Travel: Sandboarding in Namibia
If you’re standing on a sand dune in Swakopmund, Namibia and you’re in a George Mallory state of mind, what do you do? Yes! You put on a helmet, wax up a quarter-inch-thick piece of particle board, lay on it, and rocket down the slope at 80 kilometers per hour! You think I’m kidding? I’m …
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March 25, 2014
Mental Health: Finding the Help to Thrive
Boop! It’s a guest posting week! I hope you’ll hop over. The whole survive vs. thrive thing is one of the tabs in my brain browser that I’ve been leaving open all the time lately. I’m looking at my own behaviors, developing an awareness of when I step out of thrive mode and back into …
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March 19, 2014
Travel Photo: Lost in Time in Turkey
We’re pulling from the travel photo time capsule this week, and visiting Turkey. But remind me which century we’re in? Photo date: October, 2011 Looks like: 1926 Location: Bosphorus Ferry, Istanbul Nationality of subject: If he’s not British, I’ll do 50 somersaults in a row He used to have a thing for: Margaret Thatcher …
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March 11, 2014
Travel: Cameroon’s Far North Region
There’s no better time to go work in Cameroon than eight weeks after major surgery, I figured. With a fresh incision scar that went from belly button to pubic bone (a rather unwieldy thing had to come out), I got on a plane in 2007 and relocated to Yaoundé for six months, leaving my husband, …
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March 5, 2014
Mental Health Resources for Kids
Having just spent a morning speaking to AP Psychology students at a local high school this week, I thought it would be a fitting time to highlight a few mental health resources for children and youth. When I was growing up, there were few to no places for me to go to talk to a …
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