Articles on Essays
Hearts and Minds: How We Think About Moral Dilemmas
Consider the following question: You are on a bridge above a runaway train quickly approaching a fork in the tracks. On the tracks extending to the left is a...
Book Review: How Does That Make You Feel?
How Does That Make You Feel? True Confessions from Both Sides of the Therapy Couch is the ultimate tell-all book for our times. The people sharing secrets include psychotherapy...
Book Review: It’s Not Your Journey
A memoir, by nature, is an essay on a learned subject or an account written from personal knowledge. Most memoirs are picked up and read to understand a person,...
Book Review: Bad Feminist: Essays
The title of Roxane Gay’s New York Times bestseller is Bad Feminist. But you don’t have to be any kind of feminist, or even have any interest in feminism,...
Book Review: How Does That Make You Feel?
“We’re all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven’t been caught yet.” – Max Walker The therapeutic relationship is an unusual one....
Book Review: Pound for Pound
In Pound for Pound: A Story of One Woman’s Recovery and the Shelter Dogs who Loved Her Back to Life, Kopp writes of her struggle with bulimia. Weaving together...
Book Review: Show Me Your Scars
What comes to mind when you think of the term mental illness? Do you think of individuals who are thriving, successful, independent, and happy? Or do you picture individuals...
Book Review: Why We Write About Ourselves
Why We Write about Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature offers everything a reader might wish for from twenty diverse...
Halloween Safety Tips for Parents
If a visitor from outer space were observing our town during the last few days of October, I’m sure it would be a head-scratching (or tentacle-scratching) experience. Parents go...
Match.com — Again
I gave in. I signed up for again. Awesome new men were not appearing in my life without any effort on my part, so I decided to try...
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
“I’m a midwife to the dying – for those who want to hasten their death,” says George Exoo, a Unitarian preacher who claims to have assisted 102 people in...
5 Secrets to a Successful Long-Term Relationship or Marriage
There have been a thousand or more articles written about how to have a successful long-term relationship or marriage, but none that seem to capture some of the core...
My Relationship with Running
Running has become one of my favorite things. It provides me with goals that are measurable, is 100% for me, clears my head, and provides me with an immeasurable...
Depression vs. Anger: Discovering the Lesser of Two Evils
A few years ago, I received some news that sent me spiraling into depression. Not the kind of clinical or major depression that’s best treated under the care of...
Defending Happiness, and Other Acts of Bravery
There are a lot of books about how to become happier. Amy Shea’s Defending Happiness, and Other Acts of Bravery takes the goal further. It’s not enough to find...
