Lately I’ve been asked to do interviews and write on my struggle with bipolar disorder. I do so because I want people to better understand the illness as well as provide some hope to those who are afflicted by it. The following are contributions I’ve made recently to the discussion of mental wellness generally and […]
The problems we face as humans are as common and enduring as our race itself. Take the problem of communication. Though we have developed various tools over the millenia (cave drawings, smoke signals, pony express, telegraph, etc.) to aid us in our quest to communicate one with another, ultimately the problem persists. That is to […]
This morning I was reminded of my propensity to be "duped" by the illusion of control – the tendency for human beings to believe they can control, or at least influence, outcomes that they demonstrably have no influence over. I was stuck in traffic on a way to a meeting. Traffic drives me nuts! I […]