The author of Searching for John Hughes offers us an honest, unflinching look at his struggles with isolation. Jason Diamond Oprah.com I’ve dealt with depression for most of my life. But it had been a long, long time since I’d been truly isolated, nobody there when I got home or waiting in the next room. …
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Here’s another Holy Week poem from my yet-unpublished collection, At the Axis of the West. Especially fitting for Good Friday in which tragedies are turned to good, in fulfillment of that traditional mystical notion that somehow our suffering goes to fill out the suffering of Christ. Scions To the great sea’s primordial ooze, they gave …
My new Reading the Signs Foundation. I would appreciate any help any of you might offer with this Foundation, which fell through just as we were about to take off on 9/11. It now looks like we have a green light again with the blessing of the Religious Studies Dept. at CU Denver. It’s an …
In remembrance of all who suffer. Traveling to Dachau “Once they burn books, they’ll end up burning people.” Heinrich Heine Like geese, tourists flock to places of exhalation for kernels of corn— signs— scattered after the soul is shucked— initials carved in stone, locket, tooth, chip of bone— among exquisite instruments of torture in towers, …
The researchers regard their findings as a warning against assuming that teens with poor academic performance are more likely to abuse substances than their peers. They also note that while high-achieving teens may eventually get into good universities and secure high-paying jobs, substance abuse can derail those promising futures. For instance, some evidence suggests that …
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Certain brain structures related to emotion and reward are smaller in people with the disorder, new research finds. The largest-ever brain imaging study on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has led scientists to say the condition should be considered a neurological disorder, not just a behavioral one. The brain structures of children with ADHD differ in …