Why do we do it—this fight to stay alive, regardless? What’s the purpose? At our ‘advanced’ age, especially, and with...
When I was quarantining alone during the height of the pandemic, I started doing aerobic exercise routines I found online...
The term “self-care” can be thrown around so freely nowadays. Don’t get me wrong, establishing rituals for psychological health and...
Loving someone with an addiction isn’t a task for the faint of heart. You need almost superhuman powers to differentiate...
Your physical well-being influences everything in your life, in ways you might not even realize. How often do you find...
HOW TO APPLY GENERAL SEMANTICS: Using the technology of the self on the Veteran Readjustment Journey
After Iraq, I returned to New York City life with post-war stressors on my mind. It seems that ‘veteran readjustment’...
[General semantics: a system of linguistic philosophy developed by Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950), which explores the arbitrary nature of words and...
Do you know someone who seems to get lost in music? Put on some beats and their world dissolves around...
I was fortunate to be able to take some time off and travel across Southeast Asia. After three weeks of...
Perhaps as a writer, I notice it more than most people but I believe it’s obvious that as we all...
When besieged by suffering caused by an illness or injury, we yearn for relief. This is the case regardless of...
These days, Omega-3 can be seen anywhere from eggs to Kraft Dinner. But what is Omega-3? And why should we include it in our diet? Omega-3 is a polyunsaturated fatty acid...
From finger-painting to intricate landscape portraits, Lady Gaga to Chopin, art provokes spiritual wellness. Even before hospitals hired musicians to perform for traumatized veterans during the...
Paying close attention to life through mindfulness helps us discover a world that was always there, but with immense enrichment. Without it, we miss many of life’s pleasures, like recognition of the...
