I looked around my desk today and realized I have about 5 clock faces staring back at me. Not because I’m a crazy person holed up in a world of clocks (although now I’m beginning to wonder…), but because clocks seem to be an added component of other, largely unrelated things.
There’s one on my […]

While gift shopping for kids on my list, I discovered Goodwill is awash in peculiar plush toys. You can buy them seriously cheap because they’re not the latest Gund or Ty creations. Winnie the Pooh, Elmo and Snoopy don’t live here. Instead you’ll find scowling turtles, polka dotted squirrels, chequered dogs, and animals morphed into […]

As many people do at this time of the year, we’ll be taking a few days off from blogging much here during the next week. We’ll post a few items, but not the usual levels of posting you might expect from World of Psychology. I’ll be traveling and visiting with family this week, so that […]

For months, my wife and I and our friends have been looking forward to the annual Christmas show, the “Holiday Pops” of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO). We’re regular attendees of the Boston Pops, because we enjoy their music and they always put on a good show. We’ve been to over a dozen shows […]

As we continue to turn toward an increasingly digital existence to do business, to connect to people, to learn; so to will criminals and other unsavory characters turn to the virtual world to conduct their business. These persons will continue to devise new methods of manipulating us through technology. It appears however, […]

This is a letter to the editor of my local paper that wasn’t published. Slightly modified to be more global.
“Hurry up, you fat f***ing bitch,” said the young man. His companion mewed obediently and walked faster. Another woman in a trendy outfit said nothing. We were strangers walking along a sidewalk and I didn’t confront […]

I had the honor of attending a talk today by naturalist David Sibley, who is the author of the famous Sibley Guide to Birds. He’s made his life observing birds and spoke about the timeless nature of such an activity — birds today are largely the same way they were 1,000 years ago. They regularly […]

I’m back from Ireland and had an amazing time. While I was there, I was finishing up McCarthy’s Bar, a Bill Bryson-like guidebook to the country penned by Pete McCarthy. A fun travel book to read as you’re visiting a lot of the same sites he talks about in the book (although his constant questioning […]

We’ll be flying into Ireland later today, but since it’s fall, I said we’ll be “falling” into Ireland. Call it a Fall-ian Slip. Given that I’ll be on one of Ireland’s infamous tiny country back roads traveling at 30 KPM max most of the time, updates will be few and far between this coming week.
My […]

Want to hear my story? It seems that some people do. I’ve lately noticed notices for people with bipolar to share essays, art, demographics and videos. It smells like crowdsourcing. Get hundreds of people to make ads for free, the company gets publicity for the contest and then gives token prize money to the ad […]

Bums by Peter Bagge is a great comic e-book (it’s short, just four pages) with some of the most all-around rational views on homelessness I’ve ever read. Includes a description of the Housing First approach, which is to get people sleeping indoors and *then* work on treatment.
In Vancouver, BC the InSite safe injection site […]

Sometimes I just have to wonder whether anyone is awake at the wheel in corporate America. No better example of this happened to me tonight.
On Saturday, after some going back and forth, we finally decided to purchase a new dishwasher. After comparing prices and delivery charges and such, I decided to make my purchase at […]