psychology
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Dr. Rick, Can You Help Me? I’m Becoming My Mother
Aunt Peach used to tell me I was Daddy’s girl. When I was a child, she reminded me often that I looked like my father. “It’s good luck for a little girl to look like her daddy,” she said. At the very least, I suppose, it suggested that her mother had stayed on the straight-and-narrow,… Continue reading
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Why Writers Should Meditate
Dear writer: In a few moments, I’m going to ask you to close your eyes. Sometimes, the best way to be successful at doing something is to not do it for a while. Imagine you’re tackling a persnickety home maintenance task, for instance. You’re trying to fix a dishwasher that refuses to wash or figure out why… Continue reading
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After I Retired, I Hit a ‘Reminisence Bump’ in the Road
Shortly after I retired, I started to smell my mother in my house. Her signature scent-mix of Estee Lauder’s Youth Dew and Suave hairspray hung subtly on the air as if she had just passed through my living room. Though she has been dead for 10 years, I had the sensation that she had just… Continue reading
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