I won’t be contributing to this blog regularly this month—March is the start date. But I can’t resist a thought about a page one story in today’s New York Times. It concerns an upsurge in suicides at midlife noted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the age decade from 45 to 54, the CDC found a 31 per cent increase in suicides by women for the period 1999 to 2004, and a 15.6 percent increase for men. Read More