Democracy is a Habit Privacy on the Internet — an essential habit of democracy There’s an old joke: “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not all after you.” In these times of widespread surveillance, you don’t have to be paranoid to
Psychotherapy My review of Nothing’s for Nothing Nothing's for Nothing, Transformation Through Truama, by Rebekah Demiral. My review at Amazon.
The Health Watch Apple Watch is Sort of a Phone Apple Watch is now the highest revenue watch in the world. My estimate: The phone-enabled (LTE) Apple Watch is 2 – 3 years away from being an adequate smart phone replacement and 4 – 5
The Health Watch Unintended Consequences "Everything is connected to everything else." _Barry Commoner There's no such thing as unintended consequences, there are only decisions made by people with a can-do mindset — often politicians and
The Health Watch Can Your Watch Change Your Wellbeing? As a counselor, to get paid by healthcare insurers, I had to assign a diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). As the DSM has more categories than the
The Health Watch Heavy Hands, Light Watches My Apple Watch weighs 7.93 pounds less than the Heavy Hands dumbells I used to pump approximately 10,000 times a week. To reach the equivalent total weight, I'd need to lift
The Health Watch The Unexamined Life — Not For Long I was walking down an unfamiliar downtown street at night with my wife. We were in search of a bar where we were going to meet friends. Rather than, as I used to
Writing & Publishing Publishing My First Book Back to the Future (warning: three-decade old spoilers) is a story of how a single incident in people's lives can create dramatic change in their fortunes. In the beginning of the movie, the
Psychotherapy The Psychotherapy of Doc Martin, by Dr. Rachel Timoney (This is a form of fan fiction, solely for educational purposes, that combines events from the Doc Martin TV Show, Season 7, with stuff I make up.) Dr. Rachel Timoney was looking forward
Coffee Game of Mad Men: The Wholistic Guide to Coffee I said to the friendly strangers next to me, “Let's not make her nervous.” We were having a little out-of-earshot fun, at the expense of the college-age woman trying to maneuver
So What If They're Laughing at Me At the age of 34, I watched a PBS TV special on Aikido, and it was love at first sight. I was astounded and drawn by its graceful dance-like movements. I crafted a
Softworlds — an alternative future of education I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, not really a place but rather a collage — oh, let’s not be fancy, more like a neglected bulletin board — of cars, auto dealers, roads,
Title: Crouching Nouns, Hidden Verbs: my search for a great iPad writing tool A man becomes preeminent, he’s expected to have enthusiasms. _Robert De Niro as Al Capone, right before he clubs a fellow gangster to death with a baseball bat. (The accompanying images were
The Safest Family Car: a Wholistic Guide I was 14 when I first made a synaptic connection between car and safety. My 16 year-old brother, two friends, and I were cruising in our father’s 1962 Rambler convertible and playing,