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What’s your Inner Teenager telling you? Even the most docile teenager, which I’d say I was (though my mom might put it otherwise), has a reactive streak, the impulse to reject or explode or “take things personally” that seems to come from nowhere. It’s the reactivity of the teen that seems to get under the Continue Reading …
Contiune ReadingCrappy moods: they happen. (Reader, are you straight-jacket-ed by a particularly crappy mood currently? Cut right to this Louis CK cure. Road-test the comedians’ corrective. And come back to read the rest of this later.) Crappy moods are like reverse rainbows, showing up when weather conditions are darkly unfavorable in inner or outer environment or both. Continue Reading …
Contiune ReadingEasy to Advise, Hard to Do: Stay Curious By now, you’ve pressed submit on your college applications. Or your child has. Or your friend has. Or someone you knew as a baby has. Or you’re reflecting on an upcoming big decision that is is– at this point out– of your hands (more on hands in Continue Reading …
Contiune ReadingHow do YOU stay inspired, Toni Morrison? I was already nursing a huge crush on Toni Morrison as she spoke about her fictional characters’ natural limitations– how, like you and I, they only know what they know. Her confiding tone, her flirtatious but never-bullshitty manner, made me (and every other “me” there to see Continue Reading …
Contiune ReadingPause the panic mode You know when you’re getting really pissed off, anxious, or stressed, and someone says, “It’s OK, just take a deep breath”? Sometimes, you want to smack the person. Even so, you suspect that advice is spot-on, and that your emotional hubbub (Too many application essays, anyone? Computer stalling, anyone? Fridge has no Continue Reading …
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