If you are anything like me, you have been horrified and mystified by the disappearance of Malaysian Airline Flight 370 on March 8. How could a Boeing 777 jetliner carrying 239 people just disappear from the sky about an hour after take-off? With no apparent signals...
I was driving around town recently and gradually realized that I was not as aware of the ice and snow that had been coating our roads for several weeks. Previously, I had been driving defensively on our treacherous streets, fearful of skidding – or of being skidded...
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to de-clutter my house. What better place to begin than clearing the kitchen counters of all the unordered and unwanted magazines, brochures, and flyers from uninvited merchants that have accumulated over the holidays? How so many...
I doubt Nelson Mandela ever thought of himself as a psychologist or as someone who made comments that are relevant about performance anxiety. Following his recent death, when reading many news accounts about his remarkable life and his attitudes, I came to think of...
You may ask: what do performance anxiety and pumpkins have in common? First I have to tell you about my good friend, Patty. Patty has been my friend ever since we were in kindergarten. We stayed friends all the way through high school. Then we became separated by...
