Saved by Depression: Guest Blogger Eric Wilson on How Darkness Saved His Soul
If you're unlucky enough to be depressed, our society tells you to pop a pill and put on a happy face -- anything to avoid wallowing in sadness. But today's guest blogger, Eric G. Wilson, suggests in...
View ArticleGood Reads: Thrift Store Saints
Have you ever preferred to simply write a check to charity rather than get involved in people's messy, desperate lives? I confess that I have. Thankfully, some people are more courageous and...
View ArticleFlunking Deadlines, Setting Limits
Someone told me recently, "I don't know how you do it all." I've heard this before and it's nice that I fooled that person, but here is the truth: I am going a bit barmy with overcommitment. This...
View Article“Still Alice” and the Specter of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s
This month my book club read Still Alice, neuroscientist Lisa Genova's haunting novel about a Harvard cognitive science professor who discovers, at age 50 and the height of her career, that she...
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