The world is saturated with self-diagnosis. I’m not a fan of all the marketing driven “emotional issue” products that seems to introduce a new neurosis every month (Attention Overload Disorder, Multiple Bowel Syndrome, Overexposed Thumb Cramping, or whatever). Often it seems a convenient label to absolve people from being reasonable and self-controlled. But when things…
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A nice way to end a vacation
How was Thanksgiving you ask? Good. Overall good. It’s never a vacation as a parent, though as the kids get older there is less to fuss over. Though, our kids are weird – they wanted to go NO WHERE. Absolutely no where. “Hey, let’s go to the aquarium in Baltimore!” — “I don’t want to”,…
Read MoreBrain Freeze
I can’t think of anything else to describe the fact that I have so much to do and am overwhelmed by preparing our family and our house for flying tomorrow, that I am almost paralyzed — so I call it brain freeze. If I just get up and begin ONE activity then it will get…
Read MoreJust another shot of testosterone
For any of you who have children, and any of you who have boys, and any of you whose boys aren’t year 4 1/2 – 5 years old … beware. There will come a moment, seemingly overnight, when they turn into the Hulk. They will roar. They will charge. They will turn green. They will…
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