There are many reasons to cut back on watching the national news. One of the issues these last months is the recent nomination to the...

THE GREAT PRETENDER by Susannah Catalan The history of psychiatry is a minefield—Edward Shorter. Beware of the Shrapnel!—Susannah Catalan...

Why DO we Irritate the Ones we Love? From a workbook (I have since lost it and don’t have the author’s name) I picked up at a psychology...

THE TROUBLE WITH TOM PAUL COLLINS In the early 1980’s I had the opportunity, for the first time in years, to read for pleasure in volume....

Book Review/thoughts: Overripe Economy by Alan Nasser—-Mr. Nasser is a political economist at the local State University, Evergreen...

WALDERN/CIVID DISOBEDIENCE Disclosure: when I was married and went on my honeymoon in 1978, I thought it a great adventure, one that...