Collecting My Thoughts

On February 10 Christians honor Saint Scholastica, sister of Saint Benedict. She was born in the 5th century and is known mostly for her fam...

 Today I was cleaning out a drawer and found a stack of papers with old addresses.  In the stack was a 1987 letter from a friend I was inten...

This happens far more often than it should—bigotry and intolerance in politics. She writes: “Feeling a heavy heart tonight as I may have l...

From a Facebook acquaintance: “Up until this week, we have navigated the differences in political positions within the family without majo...

I received this e-mail from a “friend” of 65 years.  She was writing my cousin and not content with just gossiping, she sent me a copy! I do...

“Many people with divergent perspectives from their partners have not been able to make it work in the Trump era. A Reuters/Ipsos poll compl...

On Facebook, Christopher Buckley writes: “It has long been my dour and sour view that you don't get to make good friends later in life...

Sometimes I'm really surprised at how "old" some of our problems are. Like face to face interactions. I wrote this at my coffe...

A relatively recent development that psychological scientists must account for is the role of technology in helping siblings stay in cont...

The best way to celebrate St. Valentine's Day is to attend church together. "Using a national sample of about 1,600 adults ages 18-...

Almost 5 years ago I wrote a blog about the perfect daughter-in-law . Someone today responded and said she was having issues with her mothe...

The opening paragraph of an essay titled, "Disclosure" by Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky of Boston in the May 5, 2010 issue of JAMA was ...

Sweetie, honey, dearie, babe My father called me "Baby" even in my 60s. I didn't mind at all, even though I knew I wasn't...

51 Sounds vaguely familiar I noticed this abstract (free) in the PNAS 100 (19):11163-1170 Sept. 5, 2003 (there is a charge for the on-lin...