Meltdown

Meltdown

Thanksgiving 2014 is now over. It is my favorite holiday.  Thanksgiving marks the end of the heat of summer,  the arrival of  the crisp days and cold nights of fall, leaves turning radiant colors, and often a dusting of November snow. Work has been going full steam...
Ebola Anxiety and Mental Terrorism

Ebola Anxiety and Mental Terrorism

World and national news has been horrific especially in the last couple of days. The lone-wolf terror attack in Ottawa and the ax attack on four policemen in New York just hours later  put more atrocities in national news. Scenes from Ottawa were replayed and...
Installation Anxiety

Installation Anxiety

What I dreaded would happen actually happened today. I had put off the inevitable. Today I could not avoid it any longer. Several months ago I received a notice from my cable provider that customers needed to install a new modem. This device had to be ordered directly...
Performance Anxiety and Nelson Mandela

Performance Anxiety and Nelson Mandela

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...