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Do you think you need more red or blue in your life? Although the current economic crisis might prompt you to say, "Please, anything but red" faster than you can clip a coupon, there's new research that shows that the colors red and blue each have a distinctly different impact on the brain. Read More

 Born three weeks later than Michael Jackson, his life has always served as an extended time piece of my own. Read More

Every Wednesday is Tip Day or List Day. This Wednesday: 8 strategies to help you boost your happiness. This is an exciting week for me! Read More

Equality can't be engineered in a Petri dish. Instead of pursuing over-the-top-risky biology experiments, let's work for equal access to existing means of family building, and push for legal protections and full social acceptance for gay parents and children. Read More

Non-suicidal self-injury strikes me as one of those mysteries of human behavior. The purpose of self-injury is not to cause permanent damage to the body; self-injury is not always intentional self-mutilation. Yet, the outcome of self-injury is often a permanent mark. Read More

When Joshua Persky was fired from an investment bank at the nadir of the economic crisis, he spent months looking for a job. His lowest moment, he says, was watching his wife cry as she left New York with their kids to move back to Omaha to save money. Read More

"It's the summer, why not have a good time and get drunk?"
"I'm on vacation, who cares how much I drink?"
"It's a wedding, let's celebrate, where's the alcohol?" Read More

My reading about life in many different hunter-gatherer cultures has led me to conclude that their work is play for four main reasons: (1) It is varied and requires much skill and intelligence. (2) There is not too much of it. (3) It is done in a social context, with friends. And (4) (most significantly) it is, for any given person at any given time, optional. Let me expand on these, point by point. Each point is relevant to our lives, today. Read More

Here are two wonderful opportunities to tell mental health professionals, and an author of an advice book, what people need to know about the real lives of singles. What do friends, relatives, and counselors get right in their beliefs and in their interactions with you, and what do they still not understand? Share your experiences, and you just may see them reflected in a new family counseling textbook and in a self-help book.

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