"He married her to keep her from getting away. Now she’s there all day."
-Philip Larkin, Romanticynical Poet
This sentiment, equally applicable to men as to women, is as good a place as any to start a blog dedicated to love, romance, and sex as they really are-not the pure joy the romantics promise, nor the pure [...]
So, dear readers, how did I defend myself to my possibly-future boss, Billie Dawn, at an Au Bon Pain café in the Back Bay area of Boston, where we were both there attending the APA convention? Recall she asked with no small degree of incredulity, You’re a media psychologist — how can you [...]
I have long believed that much of what we cardiologists treat relates to what goes on from the neck up-namely patient emotions. My book, Heartbreak & Heart Disease, which I wrote back in 1996, covers one aspect of the emotional equation.
Stress in the form of suppressed emotions-from heartbreak and overwhelming sadness to hostility and [...]
Her “sister” doesn’t think so.
McCain says she is. She’s said she’s an only child repeatedly in major national interviews. I think she would like to be-especially right now. Her inheritance from father and beer baron, Jim Hensley, would indicate she’s an only child, but for the $10,000 left to her half-sister, Kathleen Hensley Portalski, 65. [...]
No matter what your politics, you have to admit that Barack Obama gave an electric speech in Denver at the Democratic Convention. He tried to set the terms for the debate for the Presidential election to be about global issues rather than a particular candidate’s stance on hot-button issues like abortion, gun-control, and gay marriage. [...]
