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I grew up on the far South Side of Chicago, where both my parents had grown up as well; in fact, I went to the same high school that both of them attended (Fenger, whose most famous alumnus was Eliot Ness). My two brothers were much older than I was, so I was practically an only child. I went to the library religiously. I graduated third in a high school class of 729.

When I started college, as the first of my family to attend college, I was an Electrical Engineering major. After 8 weeks I had switched into Psychology, which horrified my parents. I was never really a science nerd, though, and didn’t like the Chemistry and Physics courses. Nonetheless, after a year of Psych, I decided I wanted to have a job when I left school, and I switched ...more

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Meditation Without the Woo-Woo

Maybe you’ve read about meditation and mindfulness and you thought, “That’s not for me. Bunch of woo-woo nonsense.” It’s easy to get put off by all the mysticism and the talk about your “mantra” and how your guru can give it to you. Or you might think, “I can’t concentrate! My mind wanders all over the place!”

Maybe these yoga-like poses turn you off and you think you don’t have the right clothes:

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