by Marcia | Jun 2, 2015 | Learning, Living Well
As the end of the school year approaches, American kids are groaning about tests and exams. Parents worry. Will Sally flunk history? Will Jason scrape by in biology? What about their grade point averages and college applications? I remember it well. In high school...
by Marcia | Dec 23, 2014 | Healthy Aging, Living Well
Unlike an autobiography, which simply tells a life story, a memoir taps into universal truths and lets us find echoes of them in our own lives. In the movie Shadowlands, a university student remembers his father’s saying, “We read to know that we are not alone.”...
by Marcia | Nov 14, 2014 | Learning
Did you know that your fingers talk to your brain? They help you process feelings and ideas much as your teeth prepare mouthfuls of food for digestion. In front of the sofa in my office there is a coffee table with a few things on it, including a geode, a huge pine...
